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Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Limit Patent Infringement Challenges By Drug Manufacturers

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The Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act (APPA) of 2023 unanimously passed the Senate on July 11, 2024. The APPA was first introduced to the House on January 30, 2023 by Representative John Cornyn (R-Tx), with the aim of...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2024

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Our downloadable report, Legal Insights for Manufacturing, explores how the business, legal, and regulatory framework is evolving—and will evolve—to address the large generational shifts taking place. This year, our report...more

ArentFox Schiff

IP Industry Comment Opportunity At USPTO: Strategies to Address Counterfeiting and Piracy

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On May 26, 2023, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Federal Register notice seeking public comments on anti-counterfeiting and antipiracy strategies to better address this enormous US challenge....more

Smith Anderson

Not Playing Games: Trademark Dispute Between Gaming Equipment Rivals Reaches Federal Appeals Court

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Video gaming is an enormous industry, currently bigger than the movie and music industries combined, and only continues to grow. Two billion people—a quarter of the world’s population—play video games. Gaming generated $155...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

One Year of Action Since President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition

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Earlier this month — July 9, 2022 — marked the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy (Executive Order). The Executive Order was notable in its breadth and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The U.S. Trademark Office Says Δ8-THC Is Illegal -- Usually

The decriminalization of cannabis in some states, and its partial decriminalization at the federal level, has created an explosive market for cannabis itself and the myriad chemicals that compose the plant. The 2018 Farm Bill...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Toy Meets World: IP Strategies for the Toy Industry

When it comes to patents, toys typically are not top of mind like a mobile device or pharmaceutical product might be. Although a toy may appear simple, the product itself can be iconic and lucrative. But, as in most...more

BakerHostetler

How to Protect and Clear Your Medical Device During Development

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Partner Hussein Akhavannik breaks down specific patent protection and clearance strategies for each stage of medical device development, from concept and design to the manufacturing and sale....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Spring 2019

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Avoiding the Top 5 Potholes for Autonomous Transportation Startups - Autonomous transportation technology was widespread at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show. Advances in object identification, mapping, machine learning,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Right Tool, Right Job: Smart Manufacturing Requires Focus on Intellectual Property

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The transition from traditional manufacturing techniques and technologies to techniques leveraging automation and data exchange technologies, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Clarity on Manufacturer – Distributor Trademark Ownership in Third Circuit

On April 18, 2017, the Third Circuit issued an opinion in Covertech Fabricating, Inc. v. TVM Building Products, Inc., clarifying the test for determining trademark ownership between a manufacturer and distributor, where no...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Who Owns That Trademark - The Manufacturer or the Exclusive Distributor?

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The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, with a ringing endorsement of Prof. McCarthy’s trademark law treatise, issued a precedential opinion last week on the issue of whether a trademark is owned by the manufacturer or...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The Promise And Pitfalls Of 3D Printing

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3D printing offers great promise for innovation and manufacturing, but this tool has expanded the scope of patented products that can be easily and cheaply copied, and may make it harder to identify and prosecute infringers....more

WilmerHale

Federal Circuit Patent Updates - July 2016 #2

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WBIP, LLC v. Kohler Co. (No. 2015-1038, -1044, 7/19/16) (Moore, O'Malley, Chen) - Moore, J. Affirming denial of JMOL that patent was invalid as obvious and lacked an adequate written description, affirming finding of...more

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Counterfeit Certification Marks: How to Certify that the “Certified” is Certified

We have all seen or heard about them without, perhaps, knowing what they were or for what they stand: the GOOD HOUSEKEEPING seal of approval, UL certified, ENERGY STAR rated, GROWN IN IDAHO potatoes, HARRIS TWEED, and many,...more

Knobbe Martens

Medical Device Manufacturer’s Association Submits Comments on USPTO’s Proposed Rule to Require Identification of Attributable...

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(April 24, 2014) The Medical Device Manufacturer’s Association (MDMA) announced that it submitted comments to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in regard to the USPTO’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more

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Beginning the Patent Process

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The second step in bringing your medical device to market is to understand whether you can protect your invention. This article is part two of a series that presents the three big issues in intellectual property: Do...more

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