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Actavis Labs. FL, Inc. v. United States | Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC
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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 ...
Jason Harrier on AI, Invention Harvesting, and the Patent Backlog
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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 ...
Can U.S. Can U.S. Trademark registrations be cancelled for genericness?  International Lawyers Network
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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 ...
DOJ policy and GenAI
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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) ...
McDermott Will & Emery
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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 ...
Can state law contracts limit the right to repair even when patent protection has expired?
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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 ...
Where Steps of a Method Claim are Connected with “And”, a Covered method must perform each step
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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 ...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick disbands PPAC & TPAC
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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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Purpose Legal

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 ...