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Actavis Labs. FL, Inc. v. United States | Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC
Actavis Labs. FL, Inc. v. United States, Appeal No. 2023-1320 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 21 2025) Our Case of the week, according to its author, Circuit ...
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Jason Harrier on AI, Invention Harvesting, and the Patent Backlog
“[N]o no matter what enterprise you are in, you will end up with prolific innovators that you like working with but they always move to ...
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Can U.S. Can U.S. Trademark registrations be cancelled for genericness? International Lawyers Network
Suppose you have a U.S. registration for your trademark for goods or services in your business. Can your trademark registration with the U.S. Patent and ...
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DOJ policy and GenAI
“Given each administration’s articulation of its own policy regarding SEP enforcement, we expect the second Trump administration to provide updated guidance.” Standard essential patent (SEP) ...
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McDermott Will & Emery
The US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, vacated a pre-injunction. The court explained that the district judge should have immediately issued a statutory stop of ...
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Can state law contracts limit the right to repair even when patent protection has expired?
“The right to repair is not a statutorily granted right, and thus, the question remains as to whether contracts altering the right to repair are ...
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Where Steps of a Method Claim are Connected with “And”, a Covered method must perform each step
Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The Board erred by finding method-claim steps connected ...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick disbands PPAC & TPAC
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has decided to end all current appointments to both the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) and Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC), ...
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We are living in an age where information is a valuable resource. Data, ideas, and business secrets are highly sought after, especially by individuals or ...