The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently provided crucial clarification on the patentability of inventions facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI). The announcement, made on February 12th, has significant implications for intellectual property (IP) law and innovation in the rapidly evolving realm of AI technology. The USPTO’s guidance delineates the…
Massachusetts – Judge Allison Burroughs sided with Eli Lilly in a dispute with Teva Pharmaceuticals, overturning a $176.5 million jury verdict that had previously been awarded to Teva in a patent infringement suit regarding the two companies’ development of drugs with antibodies capable of treating headache disorders associated with calcitonin…
Beginning April 18, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is shifting towards issuing paper waste-reducing electronic patent grants (eGrants) to patent recipients—a new process that delivers the official copy of patent grants in an electronic format. We will provide a bound paper version as a ceremonial copy throughout a…
The U.S. Trademark Office issued the following 200 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in August 2023 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Registration No. Word Mark 6835527 BUYIMMI 6827817 I’M NOT YOUR KITE BITCH 6827793 GATORADE, G, GIT 6827776 SOULFUL KITCHEN 6827602 GATORADE THIRST QUENCHER…
The U.S. Trademark Office issued the following 159 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in July 2023 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Registration No. Word Mark 6797981 BETTER OFF SINGLE 6797949 THE SOCIAL JUSTICE GAME A GAME ABOUT CENTS & SENSIBILITY 6797815 DELL COVE 6791703 PLATFORM…
The U.S. Trademark Office issued the following 267 Trademark Registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in June 2022 based on applications filed by Indiana Trademark Attorneys: Reg. No Word Mark 6791703 PLATFORM (A PRODUCTION COMPANY) 6782465 L L 6782459 DESIGNSPINE 6783940 MIRES METHOD…
The U.S. Patent Office issued the following 168 patent registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in January 2022, based on applications filed by Indiana Patent attorneys: Patent No. Title 1 PP0033,910 Peony plant named `RTPIV 849-04` 2 PP0033,909 Peony plant named `RTPIV 849-01` 3 D0941,959 Faucet 4 D0941,780 Contact wafer…
The United States Patent and Trademark office announced the Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response (DSMER) pilot program is designed to evaluate how deferred applicant responses to subject matter eligibility (SME) rejections affect examination efficiency and patent quality as compared to traditional compact prosecution practice. The program was initiated in response…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has seen a historic surge of new trademark filings over the past year, along with an increase in suspicious submissions ranging from inaccurate to fraudulent. On January 5, 2022 the USPTO posted a Federal Register Notice that the Commissioner for Trademarks has…
The U.S. Trademark Office issued the following 152 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in January 2021 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Reg. Number Word Mark 1 6257028 SUNRISE DRUM 2 6256982 THE TUBE 3 6256782 E…