The fight between insurers and car manufacturers as to whether and, if so how, to protect the design of spare parts for cars delayed the implementation of an EU regulation on design protection for well over a decade and ended...more
9/23/2019
/ Audi ,
Auto Repair Regulations ,
Automotive Industry ,
Design Patent ,
EU ,
Ford Motor ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Motor Vehicles ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Porsche ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Trademarks
2017 saw a bumper crop of Supreme Court decisions on intellectual property matters around the world including eight by the United States Supreme Court, two by the Canadian Supreme Court, and two by the United Kingdom Supreme...more
4/12/2018
/ Apple v Samsung ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Huawei ,
Impression Products v Lexmark International ,
Life Technologies Corp v Promega Corp ,
Matal v Tam ,
NVIDIA ,
Oil States Energy Services v Greene's Energy Group ,
On-Sale Bar ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Samsung ,
Sandoz v Amgen ,
SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v First Quality Baby Products ,
Star Athletica v Varsity Brands ,
TC Heartland LLC v Kraft Foods ,
Teva Pharmaceuticals ,
Trademark Registration ,
Trademarks ,
Young Lawyers
On June 12, 2017, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Thomas in Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., the United States Supreme Court considered the complex statutory scheme that attempts to expedite resolution of patent...more
8/21/2017
/ Amgen ,
Biologics ,
Biosimilars ,
BPCIA ,
Commercial Marketing ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Life Sciences ,
Patent Dance ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Popular ,
Sandoz ,
Sandoz v Amgen ,
SCOTUS
The EU’s Unitary Patent Convention and the associated EU patent had originally been expected to come into effect in 2017. This was, however dependent on ratification of the agreement by thirteen EU countries of which three...more
Concerns about trade secret theft have been increasing in both the United States and Europe in recent years. Traditionally, American law disfavored trade secret protection vis à vis patenting on the basis that publication of...more
9/22/2016
/ Asset Seizure ,
Confidential Information ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Liability ,
Damages ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
Economic Espionage Act ,
EU ,
EU Directive ,
Ex Parte ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Jurisdiction ,
Limitation Periods ,
Misappropriation ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Private Right of Action ,
Trade Secrets ,
TRIPS Agreement ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers ,
Young Lawyers
2016 has been a year of IP changes and these changes have had an effect upon biotechnology as well as trade secrets.
Patents: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Grant Cert. In Ariosa v. Sequenom?
Ariosa v. Sequenom was...more
6/7/2016
/ Biotechnology ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
DNA ,
European Patent Office ,
Myriad-Mayo ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Personalized Medicine ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Popular ,
Sequenom ,
USPTO
Many consumers today, plagued by embarrassing typographical errors when using their touch-screen smartphones, own a second smartphone with a keyboard, such as a BlackBerry phone, for their professional correspondence. To...more