Nike Files a Trademark Opposition Against the Registration of the Trademark...
Imagine if someone, right now, went to the USPTO and filed a trademark registration that is too similar to yours? One of the options is to present an opposition before the Trademark Trial and Appeal...
View ArticleUSPTO rejects Metaverse Trademark Application Squatters Citing Likelihood of...
Metaverse as a term dates back to Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, representing a virtual reality successor to the internet where humans interacted with each other and...
View ArticlePatexia Insight 150: IPR Denials Continue to Fall While Settlement Outcomes...
Tomorrow we will be releasing our sixth annual IPR Intelligence report, where we covered the IPR filing activity from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2022. This report is our effort to fully cover the...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Upholds Lower Court Decision in Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. v....
The Federal Circuit has affirmed that Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. did not infringe Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. patents, easing Eagle’s path to market a generic competitor to Par’s Vasostrict® product....
View ArticleThe Applicant-Action (Or Inaction) Exception
GILBERT P. HYATT v. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE Before Moore, Prost, and Hughes. Appeal from the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Summary: For a patent application...
View ArticleUsain Bolt Moves to Trademark his Famous Celebration Pose as a Logo
Who doesn't remember his distinctive running style, the several world records broken individually and as a team, but also his iconic celebration pose? According to the trademark application nr....
View ArticleGoogle's Fitbit Wins Against Philips in the Patent Infringement Lawsuit...
It all goes back to 2019 when Philips accused Fitbit of infringement of four of its patents, 8,277,377, 6,013,007, 6,976,958, and 7,088,233. These patents were related to the technology used to...
View ArticleAI and Cancer Diagnostics
Rather than simply reading radiological scans, Ibex Medical Analytics is employing its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cancer detection solutions to assist pathologists in the lab. Ibex’s Galen...
View ArticlePatexia Insight 151: ANDA Litigators Who Moved in the Last 12 Months
In late August we released our third annual ANDA Litigation Intelligence Report. The report covered the ANDA litigation landscape by providing high-level statistics as well as rankings of all...
View ArticlePatent Term Adjustment Under 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)(C)(iii) Requires Reversal of...
SAWSTOP HOLDING LLC V. VIDAL Before Newman, Linn, and Chen. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Summary: When a patent claim is subject to adverse...
View ArticleFDA Publishes New Monkeypox and Medical Devices Web Page
The FDA has published new web pages about Monkeypox and medical devices. The new web page, titled Monkeypox and Medical Devices, includes information on diagnostic testing, Laboratory Developed Tests...
View ArticleDallas Mavericks Star Luka Doncic Entangled With His Mother In A Trademark...
A trademark battle seems to have started, and it’s quite unusual not only because it involves a child battling his parent but also because it represents a possibly unprecedented case where the consent...
View ArticleIceland Food vs Iceland, When A Country Battles Over Trademark Dispute (2022)
A case filed to the Grand Board of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on September 9, 2022, will be added to an ongoing and prolonged legal battle between the country of Iceland and the...
View ArticleVacated Vacatur Terminates Termination
POLARIS INNOVATIONS LIMITED v. BRENT Before Prost, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Summary: Affirming the Board’s decision not to terminate case remanded under Arthrex I...
View ArticlePatexia Insight 152: Best Performing Brand and Generic Pharmas of 2022 (ANDA)
Last month, we released our third annual ANDA Litigation Intelligence Report evaluating all stakeholders in ANDA/Hatch-Waxman cases filed over the last five years, from July 1, 2017, through June 30,...
View ArticleMedtronic Completes Acquisition of Cardiac Mapping Company Affera
Medtronic recently announced that its acquisition of Affera, Inc. has been completed. The acquisition was previously announced to be for $925 million with a $250 million contingency, as reported by...
View ArticleMeta Ordered to Pay $175 Million to Voxer Walkie Talkie App Creators Over...
Amidst news related to trademark infringement lawsuits against Meta, with several companies claiming that the new Facebook company name infringes theirs, a Texas jury has ordered Meta to pay $174.5...
View ArticleDefensive Publication vs Patent What is Best for a Company's IP Strategy?
We often see discussions around the web and various statistics about “worthless” patents. However, as patent analysts investigate them, they conclude that the problem is that they are too narrow to...
View ArticleCoinbase Sued by Veritaseum Over Patent Infringement Seeking $350 Million in...
Less than two months after they released the Q2 financial results for 2022, Coinbase received news last Thursday that they were sued by Veritaseum, alleging patent infringement and requesting $350...
View ArticleJudicial Review: The PTAB Must Offer Reasonably Discernible Logic
PROVISUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. WEBER, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Stark. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The PTAB has an obligation to ensure that its logic is reasonably...
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