In a dispute over the validity of design patents covering the fenders of GM’s 2018-2020 Chevrolet Equinox, the Federal Circuit overturned its own long-standing Rosen-Durling “rigid” standard for assessing obviousness of...more
On April 25, 2019 Orrick’s Successful Women in IP (SWIP) group and the newly launched AI Cross Practice Initiative joined forces to bring together industry-leading AI experts for a lively panel discussion on the data used to...more
5/16/2019
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On December 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down the Lanham Act's ban on registering immoral or scandalous trademarks as unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds in In re Brunetti, --- F.3d...more
12/20/2017
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President Obama and the Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit struck a one-two punch in the fight against patent trolls this week....more