The federal Circuit reversed the District Court’s jury instruction that the term “portable” and “mobile” should be given their “plain and ordinary meaning”. During claim construction at District Court’s, Eon argued that “portable” and “mobile” did not need construction and that the terms could simply be given their plain and ordinary meaning. Silver Springs [...]
In the golden age of attorneys before the 1977 Bates v State Bar of Arizona Supreme Court decision made lawyer advertising legal, practice marketing comprised word of mouth, actual social networking and other first-person methods. But since then ads and a host of other mainstream marketing methods became available to the legal profession. So [...]
In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., the Federal Circuit panel of Judges Dyk, Mayer and O’Malley determined: “after the AIA, if the existence of the sale is public, the details of the invention need not be publicly disclosed in the terms of sale” for the sale to be invalidating. In so [...]
Avery Labels worked hard to establish its brand among the consumers as the premier retailer of label product as well as providing software solutions through their design and print online tool and one-stop premium printing service, “We Print.” As a result, when consumers search online for label products, Avery is typically the top-of-mind brand, [...]
Once your idea becomes fully mature, and you can call it an invention than first thought that comes in your mind is to get it protected. Many inventors will find a patent attorney or patent agent that they will work with as they take first step towards filling a patent application in hope of [...]
For nearly half a century, Pedro Roffe has been a catalyst and an influential leader in global debates shaping today’s international intellectual property system, particularly its interface with a range of issues such as technology transfer, trade, development, investment and public health. At the Secretariat of United Nation Conference on Trade and Development, where [...]
