Please join us 9/27/2021 at 1:00pm for a discussion: United States Patent and Trademark Office Crackdown on Scammers. For years, owners of United States Trademark Registrations have been plagued by scam letters requesting payments to renews trademark registrations. Though trademark registrations must be renewed, these letters did not come from the actual USPTO but a [...]
The FENDI Decision is out! After 5 long years, the Shanghai High Court issued its final judgement in the case of Fendi v. Yi Lang. Defendant Yi Lang (no relative of this week's presenter, SoCal IP Partner Marina Lang) can no longer operate his "Fendi" stores in China, stocked with parallel goods. We will discuss [...]
At our next SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, December 12, 2016, we will discuss the following: Apple Inc. v. Ameranth. (Fed. Cir. November 29, 2016) (available here). In this appeal, the Court reviewed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions in three Covered Business Method (“CBM”) reviews. Ameranth argued for a substantial evidence standard of [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, December 10, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Pregis v. Kappos, Case No. 2010-1492, -1532 (Fed. Cir. December 6, 2012) (attached). In 2009, Pregis sued Free-Flow for declaratory judgment of invalidity and non-infringement of Free-Flow’s Patent Nos. 7,325,377, [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, November 26, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Drilling USA, Inc., Case No. 2011-1555 (Fed. Cir. November 15, 2012) (attached). This case involves a patent for offshore drilling technology that allows [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, November 19, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Hor v. Chu, Case No. 2011-1540 (Fed. Cir. November 14, 2012) (attached). The defendant, Paul Chu, is a professor at the University of Houston. He is listed as the sole [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 1, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Outside the Box Innovations, LLC. v. Travel Caddy, Inc., Case No. 2009-1171 (Fed. Cir. September 21, 2012) (attached). Travel Caddy brought suit against Outside the Box Innovations claiming infringement of [...]
We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one Ninth Circuit case during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, August 20, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Monge v. Maya Magazines, Inc., Case Nos. 10-56710 and 11-55483 (9th Cir. August 14, 2012) (attached). Noelia Monge is a pop singer and model in [...]
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 one district court case regarding the sufficiency of evidence of direct patent infringement and one Federal Circuit case involving claim construction in our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, August 29, 2011. Brief synopses are presented below. Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc., Case No. 06:08 CV 88 (E.D. Tex. [...]