Intellectual Property Updates – May 21, 2012

by Jane Lambert on 5/20/2012

Case management conferences are very important in Patents County Court litigation. They present the only opportunity to stay an action or transfer it to another court. They are the occasion when the court decides the...more

by Mintz Levin - Intellectual Property on 5/18/2012

As previously posted, ICANN’s TLD application system (“TAS”) has been plagued by a “technical glitch ” that has caused the online application system for new generic top level domains (gTLDs) to be taken offline in order to...more

by K&L Gates LLP on 5/18/2012

In its May 8 opinion In re Youman, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit bolstered the utility of reissue proceedings as a means to broaden the scope of claims of issued U.S. patents. The Federal Circuit adopted a...more

by Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. on 5/18/2012

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were dining out. Neither of us can remember the specifics (life with a newborn will do this to you), but my hazy recollection is that one of us ordered something with cheese, and following...more

by Tyson B. Snow on 5/17/2012

An interesting decision came out of New York recently. It is a criminal matter involving an Occupy Wall Street protestor who was arrested for disorderly conduct as he marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. While the case was...more

by Mintz Levin on 5/17/2012

Originally publish in Law360, New York (May 15, 2012, 1:01 PM ET) Many of the most successful and profitable technologies being developed and commercialized by technology-based companies, particularly in the areas of...more

by Sedgwick LLP on 5/17/2012

Here’s a recent case we thought our readers would be interested in that was posted in our May 2012 Media Law Bulletin. When Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. (Looney) created an architectural design known as the Island...more

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/17/2012

To the delight of content owners everywhere, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has become the first court in the country to rule that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can be liable for copyright infringement even if they...more