One of the casualties of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act in 2012 was 35 U.S.C. § 145, which had provided recourse to U.S. District Courts for U.S. patent applicants disgruntled with.
Following on from Matal v. Tam striking down the prohibition on the registration of trademarks containing derogatory terms and phrases and Iancu v. Brunetti, the Federal Circuit has struck another long-standing limit on what trademarks can be registered.
For some time, we have been following the emerging case law on whether companies, such as Amazon, that create an online marketplace for other sellers, may be held liable when products.
In Wirley v. Central Florida Young Men’s Christian Association, 228 So.3rd 18 (Florida, 2017), the Supreme Court ruled disclosure of a financial relationship between a party, a.