Intellectual Property – May 23, 2012

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/23/2012

As part of its efforts to implement the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a Federal Register notice (77 Fed. Reg. 3748) earlier this year indicating that the Office had begun to...more

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/22/2012

Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice if the Federal Register (77 Fed. Reg. 28331) proposing another increase in patent fees. The newly proposed adjustment in fees, which would go into effect on...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 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

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/16/2012

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice published in today's Federal Register (77 Fed. Reg. 28541) seeking comments regarding an international effort to revise the standard for Sequence Listing submissions. ...more

by Fox Rothschild on 5/15/2012

Originally published in Daily Business Review on May 9, 2012 The U.S. patent system will transition from a "first-to-invent" system to a "first-to-file" system on March 16, 2013. This is the most significant change...more

by Mintz Levin - Intellectual Property on 5/14/2012

As ICANN struggles to get its application system back online, companies have begun lining up to make a profit off of the peculiarities of the application process itself. Pool.com, a domain name drop catch service provider,...more