The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Can you imagine the accolades someone would receive if they contributed to an invention that improves bacon? In 2021, HIP sued Hormel, challenging Hormel’s ownership and the inventorship of U.S. To be a joint inventor, “a person must make a significant contribution to the invention as claimed. 9,980,498 (the “’498 Patent”).

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Can you imagine the accolades someone would receive if they contributed to an invention that improves bacon? In 2021, HIP sued Hormel, challenging Hormel’s ownership and the inventorship of U.S. To be a joint inventor, “a person must make a significant contribution to the invention as claimed.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2022

2007); see also Firstenergy Solutions Corp. A case that I recently litigated illustrates how this can work. Dircksen , an employer and former employee made competing claims over the ownership of an invention. ” Chicago Title Ins. Magnuson , 487 F.3d 3d 985, 990 (6 th Cir. Flerick , 521 Fed. 521, 525-26 (6 th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

at 1-2] At its heart, therefore, this case is a dispute about copyright ownership. But before the ownership dispute could be fully addressed, the court was asked to determine whether the claims were timely; and if so, whether damages could be recovered for conduct occurring more than three years before the lawsuit was filed.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

Seeing no immediate litigation alternative, I called for “common sense Congressional legislation to make States directly liable for damages for copyright infringement,” because I felt it unfair that, after Allen , copyright owners “would find themselves defenseless from state-sponsored copyright piracy.” Nation Enters.,

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

Further, that same commentator has noted that: In 2007, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted ownership of the word “Jesus” to Jesus Jeans, owned by a publicly traded Italian company, BasicNet, giving the company exclusive rights in America to sell clothing bearing the name “Jesus.” World Intellect.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When Design Within Reach started, it said in its 2007 10K: “our competitors believe they have exclusive rights” in some of their proudcts, including some of their best selling items, which were reproductions. There’s not evidence of a litigation history of the few midcentury modern design patents, even though Herman Miller etc.

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