Two Recent Cases Please join us Monday, June 22, 2026 at noon online or in Westlake Village when we will discuss two recent cases. In a patent case at the Federal Circuit, GoTV Streaming, LLC v. Netflix, Inc., No. 2024-1669 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 9, 2026)(Opinion by Judge Tarantino reversing Judge Klausner of the Central Dist [...]
Trademark and Copyright Limits: Lessons from Eleanor and Rapunzel Please join us Monday, June 09, 2025, at noon where we will discuss two recent decisions made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Eleanor vs. Shelby: The Legal Showdown Over a Hollywood Legend [...]
Trademarks - False Connections and the Color Green Please join us Monday, May 19, 2025, at noon where we will discuss two recent decisions made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In In Re Thomas D. Foster APC, No. 23-1527 (Fed. Cir. 2025), the Fed. Cir. affirmed the TTAB’s refusal of Thomas [...]
Descriptive Marks and Patent Provisional Rights Please join us Monday, April 14, 2025, at noon where we will discuss two recent decisions made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, one dealing with the long-felt distinctiveness issue and the other dealing with post-expiration issuance of a patent. In In re Forest, No. [...]
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 [...]