Ideas on Intellectual Property Law
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| June/July |
In this issue:
- Is something afoot?
"Ordinary observer" test used to determine design patent anticipation
- Coffee break: Court lowers bar for dilution claims
- A game of confusion
Court addresses "likelihood" vs. "absence of actual
- Federal Circuit clarifies penalty for false patent marking
- IP in modern day China: A look at the evolving patent landscape
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| February/March |
In this issue:
- Fore!
Court takes a swing at printed publications as bars to patentability
- Who's Your Daddy?
Patent inventorship often turns on time of conception
- Connecting the dot-coms in a trademark dispute
- Court tackles tricky issue of tacking trademark rights
- International Patent Protection: Hurry Up & File
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| 2009 | |
| Year End Issue |
In this issue:
- Taking a swing at the first sale doctrine
Resellers raise challenge in trademark infringement case
- Rough waters: Inventor's standing at issue in patent case
- Fair or foul?
What qualifies as transformative use, not copyright infringement
- Federal Circuit clarifies double patenting test
- Inter partes reexamination
A cost-effective alternative to patent litigation
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| October/November |
In this issue:
- Enforcing your core IP rights to further your business goals
- The keyword results are in
Second Circuit issues key decisions re: search engines
- Patent Law: More madness over business methods
- Can you prove copyright infringement without proof of copying?
- IP in brief: In re TS Tech USA
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| August/September |
In this issue:
- Don't "Over-License" Your Patent Rights
- Too obvious
Federal Circuit extinguishes candleholder patent
- Video game dispute pits trademark infringement agains the First Amendment
- Patentability of business methods
Resuming the fight in a revised Federal Cicuit opinion
- IP in brief: Intervest Construction v. Canterbury Estate Homes
Court warns of "thin" protection for architectural works
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| June/July |
In this issue:
- Picking up the pieces
Court weighs in on liability for patent-infringing components
- Pencils down!
Federal Circuit adopts definitive test for method patentability
- How do team colors hold up in a trademark dispute?
- IP in brief: Societe Civile Succession Richard Guino v. Renoir
Sold sculptures prompt copyright claim
- Maintaining IP strategies in a recession
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| April/May |
In this issue:
- Induced patent infringment
Opinion of counsel matters (really!)
- Court declares appropriate test for design patent infringement
- The importance of association
Automotive trademark faces likelihood of confusion test
- Can an implied license defeat a copyright claim?
- Congress enacts additional IP protections
- The importance of truth in patent marking
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| February/March |
In this issue:
- Don't get burned
Patent's inequitable conduct defense requires intent and materiality
- Proving secondary meaning for trademarks
- How the first sale doctrine affects foreign-made infringing copies
- Notice of patent infringement trips up defendant
- Recent Court of Appeals decision strengthens design patents
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