Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Parties that own minority shares in the trademark registrant, but do not.
Foley Hoag LLP attorneys, on behalf of the New York Intellectual Property Association (NYIPLA), filed an amicus curiae brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in Cellect, LLC v. Katherine Vidal.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has issued a pair of rulings wiping out claims in two patents asserted by a litigation outfit targeting the way that ads work on YouTube, but the decisions included a rare dissent-in-part from an administrative judge who disagreed on how a 2005 Sony patent application fit into the dispute.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed a new rule that would change the requirements for filing a terminal disclaimer to overcome an obviousness-type double patenting rejection.