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USPTO Debuts New Trademark Search System

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On November 30, 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) unveiled a new cloud-based trademark search system. According to the USPTO, the new system will provide a “more stable search environment with a...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - September 2021

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The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more

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UPSTO Revises Patent Bar Qualifications

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The USPTO has announced changes to the “technical and scientific qualifications that may typically make applicants eligible” to take the patent bar exam. The changes are being implemented after consideration of public...more

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PTAB Holds Mock Oral Arguments for LEAP Attorneys

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Holding its first mock oral arguments, the PTAB provided LEAP eligible participants with a unique opportunity to argue in front of PTAB judges. On August 7, 2020, mock oral PTAB hearings were held virtually with 40 LEAP...more

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LEAP: Additional PTAB Argument Time Offered For Junior Attorneys

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Less experienced patent practitioners may be granted additional oral argument time in front of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) with the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP). LEAP helps foster development...more

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Junior Lawyers Can Receive Additional Argument Time

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As fewer cases go to trial nowadays, judges have long been mindful of providing young lawyers with “stand-up” opportunities. For example, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California, in his Standing Order,...more

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Patent System Stakeholders Underutilizing Open Data Resources at the USPTO

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Fostering and supporting innovation is, quite literally, the mission of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To advance this mission, the USPTO hosts a suite of web portals that empowers patent applicants,...more

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USPTO warns attorneys to monitor trademark filings for fraudulent uses of attorney information

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently issued a “Trademark Alert” and corresponding news brief warning attorneys to monitor trademark filings to ensure that their names, signatures, and contact information...more

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When Innovation Invents: Artificial Intelligence Issues at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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The Situation: Artificial intelligence ("AI") is growing more powerful and gaining application in many areas. AI can now create new innovation on its own, without a human inventor—a capability that will only expand as...more

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Determining the Patent Eligibility of Inventions Under the New USPTO Guidelines

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Under the U.S. Patent Act, one can patent “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” Common exceptions to what can be patented include laws of...more

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Practical Tips from the Judges’ Panel at the PTAB Judicial Conference

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On July 26, 2018, the Silicon Valley Regional Office of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) hosted a Judicial Conference by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). During the conference, a panel of...more

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USPTO Updates Patent Eligibility Guidance in View of Federal Circuit Berkheimer Opinion

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a memorandum to its patent examining corps that changes the way examiners should evaluate the question of whether a claim element is “well-understood, routine,...more

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Strategies to Argue Patentable Subject Matter per USPTO Eligibility Memo

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It is time to take a deeper look and derive or strengthen some strategies to argue for patentable subject matter eligibility during patent prosecution, now that the first round articles on the USPTO Memorandum April 19, 2018,...more

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How To Protect Your Clients’ IP

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A business’s intellectual property may be its most valuable asset. Whether it is biotechnology, trade names, business methods, or computer software, intellectual property should be protected to the greatest extent possible...more

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Latest Tool in the Fight against Alice: USPTO Publishes a New Eligibility Quick Reference Sheet

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Struggling to keep case law relating to subject matter eligibility organized? In February 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released an improved Eligibility Quick Reference Sheet, providing patent...more

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2017-18 Supreme Court Update

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In the 2017-18 term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a number of potentially significant disputes relevant to businesses, including those involving constitutional protections, class actions and other corporate liability...more

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Alert: US Appeals Court Strikes Ban on Registering ‘Immoral’ or ‘Scandalous’ Trademarks

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In a much-anticipated and yet unsurprising outcome, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on December 15 struck the law barring registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" trademarks as unconstitutional in violation...more

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PTO Implements Attorney Discipline Diversion Program

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) initiated a two-year Diversion Pilot Program to align its attorney discipline program with the practices of more than 30 states. The program is designed to give patent and trademark...more

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Summaries of All Supreme Court and Precedential Federal Circuit Patent Cases Decided Since Jun. 1, 2016

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This paper is based on reports on precedential patent cases decided by the Federal Circuit distributed by Peter Heuser on a weekly basis. ...more

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10 Trademark Cases About Yo Mama

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Anna Jarvis led the efforts to establish the first official celebration of Mother’s Day in 1908, during which she honored her own mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis, a Civil War-era social activist. But about a dozen years after...more

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Marijuanaville v. Margaritaville: Registering Trademarks For Chemically Induced Mental Paradises

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Although marijuana is becoming legal to varying degrees in an increasing number of states, your chances of getting a marijuana trademark registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) are still grim. In...more

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USPTO Adds New Features to PatentsView Tool

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In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the addition of several new features to its patent data visualization and analysis tool, PatentsView, which allows the public to interactively engage, through a...more

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A March to Madness: Can the NCAA Claim Ownership of the Third Month of the Year?

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The NCAA has a well-deserved reputation for being quite zealous when it comes to protecting its registered trademark “March Madness.” We previously blogged about this here at TheTMCA.com. But a recent opposition filed by the...more

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Phish Snared in Trademark Office’s Net Due to Phan Products

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Ask any fan of the American improvisatory rock band Phish to explain the significance of the following pattern and you will invariably receive the same answer:         It’s of course the pattern of drummer Jon...more

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Client Alert: New TTAB Rule Changes Take Effect in 2017

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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), which decides issues of trademark registrability, recently sought comments regarding certain rule changes to the TTAB Rules of Practice. On October 7, 2016, the U.S. Patent and...more

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