On January 17, 2015, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the January 2015 Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (“TMEP”), which incorporates changes made in accordance with the following rules: • Renaming of Express Mail® to Priority Mail Express®, published October 22, 2014 at 79 FR 63036; • Reduction…
As explained in Monday’s blog post, in general a network operator should not be liable for its users’ activity as long as the operator merely acts as a passive conduit for Internet traffic. However, network operators who remain worried about the risk of liability for copyright infringement can consider another…
Open networks provide Internet access to the public. Users do not need to subscribe – they simply connect their devices, often over a wireless connection. For instance, the City of San Francisco recently deployed a free, public Wi-Fi network along a three-mile stretch of Market Street. Similarly, the Open Wireless…
Bloomington, Indiana – The Indiana University Maurer School of Law has selected a prominent intellectual property lawyer to serve as the first full-time director of its intellectual property law clinic. Norman J. Hedges (pictured) will join the law school today as a clinical associate professor of law. He comes to…
Indianapolis, Indiana – All federal criminal charges against Guoqing Cao and Shuyu Li, who were formerly employed by Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”), were recently dropped by federal prosecutors, who stated that “additional information” had been received that altered “the investigative facts initially relied upon by the government” in its…
Alexandria, Virgina – The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) will host an external stakeholder forum (please see below) on January 29, 2015, from 1 to 3 pm, to discuss issues related to its e-filing system or ESTTA (Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals). The United States Patent and…
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on the patent infringement litigation between Zimmer of Warsaw, Indiana and Stryker of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Federal Circuit upheld the jury’s finding that Zimmer had infringed three of Stryker’s patents but overturned the decision of the Western District…
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case asking whether its decision in Brulotte v. Thys Co., 379 U.S. 29 (1964), that a licensee’s obligations are absolved after the expiration of a patent, should be overruled. Kimble v. Marvel Ent. Inc., U.S., No. 13-720. Ninth Circuit…
How does a trademark infringement lawsuit begin? A trademark lawsuit begins when the trademark owner files a complaint with a court alleging trademark infringement. Among other things, the complaint names the parties involved and sets forth the allegations that form the basis of the lawsuit. Trademark owners who decide to…
The U.S. Patent Office issued the following 186 patent registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in December 2014, based on applications filed by Indiana patent attorneys: Patent No. Title D720,489 Light D720,433 Faucet spout D720,343 Stand 8924909 Microelectromechanical system design and layout 8924332 Forecasting hotspots using predictive visual analytics…