Cancellation of the Washington Pro-Football Team’s Trademark Affirmed by District Court

In 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) cancelled six trademark registrations related to the Washington “Redskins.”The marks were found to disparage Native Americans; Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1052(a)), prohibits the registration of disparaging marks. Following the cancellation, the mark owner appealed the decision to the District Court for […]

The Continuing Saga of the First IPR at the Federal Circuit

    The Federal Circuit has simultaneously issued an order and an opinion in In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC, previously discussed on Filewrapper® as being the first appeal arising from an inter partes review (“IPR‚¬) . The order issued by the Federal Circuit is a denial of the Petition for En Banc Rehearing to consider […]

Kimble v. Marvel-SCOTUS’s Refusal to Overturn Brulotte

Kimble v. Marvel-SCOTUS Declines to Overturn Brulotte

            Patent portfolios are often a substantial asset to business associations, and even for the individual inventor an issued patent or two can be Big Business. Patent assignments (i.e. wholesale buying and selling of patents and patent applications) are not the only ways to trade in the commodity. Many transactions take […]

Teva v. Sandoz Revisited

Teva v. Sandoz Revisited On June 18, 2015, a Federal Circuit panel reaffirmed that the key claim of the patent at issue inTeva v. Sandoz, was invalid as indefinite. The procedural posture and technical background leading up to this decision is discussed in aprior blog post.  The Federal Circuit ultimately concluded that they are still […]

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