Boston-based Ropes & Gray plans to spin off about 100 lawyers and staff over the next couple of months in a major restructuring aimed at creating a new patent prosecution practice firm. Joseph Giuliano, co-head of Ropes & Gray’s IP rights management practice in New York, will head the as-yet-unnamed firm.President Donald Trump announced 26 additions [...]
Stryker Corp. sues orthopedics rival Biomet and a pair of ex-sales reps, accusing them of a scheme to poach Stryker sales teams and diverting customers. Stryker accused Biomet and a pair of former sales representatives of a scheme to poach reps and business from Stryker in Louisiana and New York.Christopher Ridgeway and Richard Steitzer allegedly [...]
In a wide-ranging investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC),Converse asserted four trademarks against 31 respondents in an alleged Chuck Taylor look-a-like industry. After 22 of those respondents settled and five more defaulted, the ITC ruled Converse’s diamond patterned sole trademark was indeed infringed, but rejected Converse’s cap-toe and sole-stripe trademarks to the [...]
In a significant development today, Justice Endlaw of the Delhi High Court held that ‘export’ of a patented invention for experimental purposes is also covered under Section 107A of the Patents Act, 1970 (India’s Bolar exemption) and thus does not amount to patent infringement. It accordingly allowed Natco to export Bayer’s patented drug ‘Sorafenib [...]
New trademark rules with simplified processes, fewer forms and online filing will come into effect next week, substantially improving the ease of doing business on this front. It increases online filing and cut down the number of adjournments in opposition proceedings. General Information- The amended rules, which the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is [...]
Judicial Functions Can’t Be Delegated: SC A judicial functioning has to be done in a judicial manner, observed the Supreme Court while holding that Section 33(2) of the Stamp Act does not empower the judge of the high court to direct the officer of the high court to enquire and to find out to [...]
