In Lashify v. ITC, the Federal Circuit held that the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement, which is a precondition for obtaining International Trade Commission Section 337 relief, can be satisfied with...more
A generic.com term may be eligible for trademark protection if consumers perceive the term as a source identifier.
The combination of a generic word plus ".com" does not necessarily equal a generic term. Instead, in an 8–1...more
7/13/2020
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Booking.com ,
Domain Name Registration ,
Domain Names ,
Generic Marks ,
Lanham Act ,
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Trademark Registration ,
Trademarks ,
United States Patent and Trademark Office v Booking.com BV ,
USPTO
Revisiting the government edicts doctrine for the first time in more than a century, the U.S. Supreme Court in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., No. 18–1150, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), split 5-4 to hold that annotations to...more
5/6/2020
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Appeals ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyrightable Subject Matter ,
Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc ,
Government Edicts Doctrine ,
Legislative Duties ,
Reaffirmation ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Code ,
The Copyright Act
In Friday’s decision in Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Research Corp. Technologies, Inc., No. 17-2088 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 1, 2019), the Federal Circuit held that a time-barred petitioner that is joined into a case has an...more
2/7/2019
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Adverse Judgments ,
Appeals ,
Final Written Decisions ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Joinder ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Right To Appeal ,
Time-Barred Claims