IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Right now, inventors, businesses, and other interested members of the public often have to undertake time consuming and expensive litigation to determine who owns a patent.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Well, it turns out that not all contributions count when it comes to being an inventor of a patent for a better method of precooking bacon. Unitherm”), argued that it had rights to the patent because its president was an inventor and should be added to the patent. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. The court in Pannu v.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, argued in a reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, on Tuesday that her case against Rogue Fitness is justiciable and the company has standing despite the cancellation of her patent claims by the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a decision granting a Motion for Summary Judgment for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and upholding the Office’s view that AI algorithms cannot be listed as inventors on U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 2, 2024

Yesterday, US Inventor, Inc. USI) filed an amicus brief in Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) to reconsider its use of Rule 36 when affirming decisions.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 30, 2024

When inventors and creators know that their work will be protected, they are more likely to invest time, money, and resources into developing new ideas and technologies. Strong intellectual property rights are a cornerstone of the modern American economy.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works. What is AI image generation software? How do you train AI tools?

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2022

Neapco just a few days earlier, inventor David Tropp on July 5 again asked the Court to unravel U.S. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition in American Axle v. patent eligibility law. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Careless naming of inventors on a patent application can create confusion and add complexity to an already intricate process. is a great example where failure to properly list a co-inventor resulted in the only named inventor losing their patent rights. The recent case of Blue Gentian, LLC v. Tristar Prod.,

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The recently-formed Inventors Defense Alliance (IDA) sent a letter yesterday to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure in the Administrative Office of the United States Courts urging it not to heed the call of a letter sent to the Committee last week by 124 large companies to implement a uniform process on disclosure of third-party litigation (..)

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 5, 2024

If you are an inventor of a consumer product there are reputable companies looking for inventions and ideas to bring to market, and their business model is built on taking products to market over and over again, and they are in constant need of new products and improvements.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2023

Recovering money from users of technology requires movement on the part of inventors of technology. inventors) to send cease and desist letters, file complaints in federal district court, and at times endure patent litigation to its completion. All of these movements require the inventor to possess a patent.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Attorneys for deceased computer programmer Dave Kleiman on Monday hammered self-professed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright with documents in which he described Kleiman as his business partner despite his claims in multibillion-dollar litigation that the two were just friends.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

On January 21, inventor Martin David Hoyle and his company B.E. Technology filed a response in opposition to a consolidated motion to dismiss that was filed last November by defendants Michelle K. Lee, former Director of the U.S.

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IP Close Up

MAY 16, 2023

Inventors who are adept at identifying new and potentially disruptive products are increasingly sought after by leading technology players who may wish to dissuade or Continue reading

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IP Close Up

MARCH 21, 2023

When it comes to declining respect for intellectual property rights inventors and content creators, such as photographers, musicians and writers, as well as some trademark Continue reading

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact).

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By reintroducing the requirement that inventors submit a miniature working model of their inventions along with their patent, legislators could help to deter patent trolls, reduce frivolous litigation and support legitimate inventors in protecting their innovations, says Darin Gibby at Kilpatrick.

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IP Law 360

MAY 22, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office’s recently proposed rule on terminal disclaimers will make the patent system less available to inventors and will unfairly favor defendants in litigation, say Stephen Schreiner at Carmichael IP and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 6, 2022

In the latest episode of ‘Understanding IP Matters’, which dropped today on leading podcast platforms, award-winning inventor Dan Brown says that the patent winds have shifted and are blowing Continue reading.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We are pleased to bring to you this sponsored post by IP Press on the extension of the registration deadlines for their Comprehensive Course on Patents, in collaboration with S. The IP Press presents the third cohort of the Comprehensive Course on Patents. Majumdar & Co. Majumdar & Co. Majumdar & Co.,

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IP Watchdog

MAY 2, 2022

federal government to address patent quality, abusive litigation and forum shopping. Unfortunately, the proposed reforms would help very little, if at all, toward improving certainty and clarity in patent rights in a way that would actually improve American innovation by supporting small startups and individual inventors in our country.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2024

IP CloseUp, weekly perspective on intellectual property trends and business, broke through 392,000 views and 272,000 visits in 2023, on its way to 400,000 plus Continue reading

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2022

Gilbert Hyatt, an inventor who has been granted more than 70 patents and has filed more than 400 applications with the U.S. Hyatt has been embroiled in litigation with the USPTO for decades and won a previous Supreme Court appeal in 2012. . Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has petitioned the U.S.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Meena Alnajar is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Patents can help inventors gain protection and recognition for their innovations, but are often costly and can take years to issue to register. In theory, this increased patent protection should benefit the inventor.

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Every year, on April 26, intellectual property organizations around the world observe “ World IP Day ” – an event established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to raise awareness of patents, copyrights, designs, and trademarks, and to celebrate the creativity and contributions of inventors, authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 13, 2022

Frederick Shelton IV, arguably the most prolific and financially successful inventors ever, is a Johnson & Johnson medical device innovator unknown to pretty much everyone Continue reading.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Having a robust Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategizing well to maintain it can do wonders in enhancing your brand value and market share. However, keep in mind that using your IP assets to support the current and future market position of your business can prove to be a major challenge. Managing the IP Portfolio Well.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2022

On April 13, 2022, the Federal Court of Australia, on appeal, reversed its 2021 decision that DABUS, an artificial intelligence (AI) machine, qualified as an inventor for a patent application under Australian law. Each application names DABUS as the sole inventor. DABUS is a computer built, programmed and owned by Dr. Stephen Thaler.

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IP Close Up

MAY 29, 2024

Seven of the top 10 most prolific inventors for 2023 are women according to grants issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and conveyed Continue reading

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IP Law 360

JUNE 18, 2024

A California federal court has issued a pair of patent eligibility rulings that have ended an inventor's infringement litigation against ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Understanding the extent of a company’s IP holdings usually starts with what’s known to the company, such as all registered copyrights, trademarks, or patents, domestic and foreign. After compiling a list of those IP assets, the next step would be to review what the company is using and compare that to the list of registered or pending IP.

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IP Law 360

MAY 30, 2024

A California federal judge has said Netflix couldn't prove a Finnish inventor violated an injunction tied to his concealment of certain legal funds, or that a litigation fund manager the inventor worked with needs to face claims tied to that concealment.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Last week, independent inventor Carrie Hafeman filed an opening brief for the appellant at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) seeking reversal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) invalidation of her device location and theft prevention patent claims.

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IP Close Up

OCTOBER 15, 2024

inventors and the most active living in New York City. “Creativity is everywhere,” says James Jorasch, one of the leading U.S. On the Season 4 Continue reading

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 20, 2022

Germany’s Federal Patent Court has set aside a decision by the country’s Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) that refused a patent application naming an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor. Thaler and the inventor as “DABUS - The invention was autonomously generated by an artificial intelligence.”.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision in part reversing and in part affirming a district court’s dismissal of an inventor’s patent infringement suit against Google under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure12(b)(6).

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