For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, January 9, 2017, we will discuss the following: D'Agostino v. Mastercard Int'l Inc., Case Nos. 2016-1592 and 2016-1593 (Fed Cir. December 22, 2016) (available here). Method claims of Plaintiff's patents disclose processes for generating limited-use transaction codes to be given to a merchant by a customer [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, November 23, 2015, will be a discussion of the following cases: Keeling v. Hars (2nd Cir. October 30, 2015) (available here). In a copyright action seeking to enforce plaintiff's copyright in an unauthorized parody of the movie Point Break, the district court's judgment for the plaintiff is affirmed. The [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 2, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. v. Cadbury Adams USA LLC, Case No. 2011-1140, 2011-1150 (Fed. Cir. June 22, 2012) (attached). This suit involved infringement assertions between two competitors in the chewing [...]
We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one Ninth Circuit case during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, May 21, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. In re Montgomery, Case No. 2011-1376 (Fed. Cir. May 8, 2012) (attached). The examiner rejected appellant's claims in a patent application towards a method for [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, May 14, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Leader Tech., Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., Case No. 2011-1366 (Fed. Cir. May 8, 2012) (attached). This patent infringement case relates to software that allows users on a network to communicate [...]
We will be discussing recent trends and changes at the US Patent and Trademark Office and implementation of the America Invents Act during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 23, 2012. Some of the topics that we will discuss include: Efforts by the USPTO to reduce the backlog in examination of patent [...]
We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one WIPO UDRP administrative panel decision during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, February 27, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. ClearValue, Inc. et al. v. Pearl River Polymers, Inc. et al., Case No. 2011-1078 -1100 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 17, 2012) (attached). ClearValue accused [...]