Not infrequently, applicants complain that in their applications, inventions which appear to be novel and nonobvious are simply rejected over what appears to be a random collection of prior art ...
On January 6, 2016, Matthew H. Swyers, proprietor of The Trademark Company, commenced a lawsuit against the USPTO, alleging that the Office has violated his Constitutional rights in its investigation ...
In a case with a better than average chance for grant of certiorari, Top Ten No. (10) Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee, Supreme Court No. 15‑446, petitioner directly challenges ...
Following graduation from Princeton University with a degree in chemical engineering and Seton Hall with a Juris Doctorate, William Long had a successful first career as a corporate patent attorney, ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark MAGIC SNOWBALL for "plush toy which looks like a snowball and contains a motion-activated LED" [SNOWBALL disclaimed] finding the mark likely ...
Whither the era of the prominent New York powerhouse patent boutique? Since the1990’s many of the leading New York patent boutiques have disappeared through merger or otherwise. Kali Hays presents a view of ...
Today in Calhoun v. General Services Administration, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(per curiam)(Prost, C.J., Moore, Taranto, JJ.), the panel provides further evidence that the court has too many ...
Miss World Limited opposed an application to register the mark THE WORLDS PAGEANTS for "entertainment in the,nature of beauty pageants," on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered ...
Congratulations to Herb Wamsley, recently appointed by Circuit Judge Richard Linn to the Advisory Board of The Naples Roundtable which the jurist chairs. About The Naples Roundtable: The organization is ...
The Board sustained this Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the mark FLATIZZA for "pizza," finding that Applicant Janco, LLC had not used the applied-for mark in commerce prior to ...