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USPTO Request for Public Comments Regarding the WIPO Design Law Treaty | Quarles & Brady LLP
Over the past two decades, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been working on a Design Law Treaty focused on aligning examination and procedural ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Big Money in Play: NCAA Permits School Assistance with NIL Activity | BakerHostetler
On April 17, the NCAA Division I council approved a proposal that allows schools to assist with name, image and likeness (NIL) activity.[1] The rule ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Who Stands to Gain from a TikTok Ban
The winners from the TikTok battle The countdown to TikTok disappearing from the United States is about to start. The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation to ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Common Ownership Exception Leads to Petition Denial | Jones Day
The PTAB recently denied Trend Micro, Inc.’s (Petitioner) inter partes review petition against Open Text, Inc. and Webroot, Inc. (Patent Owners) challenging all claims of ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Celebrating World IP Day 2024 | Smart & Biggar
For World IP Day 2024, we asked three of our practitioners three questions, all related to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2024 theme of IP ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
The National Enquirer’s Parent Company Struggles To Find A Buyer
For five years, the owner of The National Enquirer has been trying to find a buyer to take it off its hands. But repeated attempts ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Defendants Ordered to Coordinate Pretrial Litigation in MDL Are Not Necessarily ‘Significantly Related’ to Support Discretionary Denial of IPR | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office vacated and remanded a decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board discretionarily denying institution of ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Getting Off on the Wrong Foot: How Marketing Strategies Can Backfire | Dickinson Wright
The European Court of Justice affirmed an earlier decision of the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in a case where Puma was attempting to gain ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Michael C. Jensen, 84, Who Helped Reshape Modern Capitalism, Dies
Michael C. Jensen, an economist and Harvard Business School professor whose evangelizing for stock options, golden parachutes and leveraged buyouts helped reshape modern capitalism and ...