Commissioner of Patents Andrew Hirshfeld and William Covey, Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline will issue personalized certificates to practitioners who provide at least 50 hours of patent ...
Congratulations to George Washington University alumnus Makan Delrahim who now serves as Deputy White House Counsel. Makan has a long and distinguished record of service for the government including the ...
The former Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit is quoted in IAM Magazine as “remain[ing] a candidate for the [PTO] Director position and believ[ing] that [he] possess[es] the energy, experience, ...
In this unusual factual situation involving two geographically descriptive terms, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of a Supplemental Registration for the mark CHICAGO STAGEHAND, in standard character form, ...
Attached are three intellectual property opinions from the Hon. Neal Gorsuch, nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. gorsuchOpinionsX Regards, Hal
Attached is a paper, “The Right to Experiment ‘On’ a Patented Invention: Exorcising the Ghosts of Case Law Past”, that considers the important work of George Washington University Law School Professor ...
The TTAB affirmed the USPTO's refusals to register six design marks - comprising the color green applied to the top portion of a sprinkler head and contrasting with an adjoining ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register THE LAUNDRY CAFE on the Supplemental Register, finding the term to be generic for "providing washing and drying laundry facilities," in International Class ...
My second anniversary since retirement also marks the end of my non-compete clause with the Foley firm. During this “sabbatical” a treatise on the Leahy Smith America Invents Act of 2011 ...
The Board sustained an opposition to registration of the slogan I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! for “Bottoms; Caps; Hats; Jackets; Shirts; Sweatshirts; T-shirts; Tops," on the ground that the ...