Toyota, one of the leading giants in the automobile industry, sensed a huge relief when the Delhi High Court on 8th of July, 2016 delivered its judgment in its favour. This trademark dispute was pending in the court for seven long years, before the court found the defendants conduct to be dishonest. One of [...]
The current United States presidential election has created an ongoing deluge of controversial moments from both running candidates. However, it seems that even once the election has been settled the media will still be focused on Donald Trump’s every move. It is speculated in some quarters that the Republican candidate will use his own [...]
The Federal Circuit ruled Monday November 7, 2016 that two patents on interactive program guides and on-demand media that TiVo (Rovi Corp), a digital entertainment guides provider accused Netflix of infringing are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas under the Alice standard, upholding a lower court just days after arguments in the appeal. The [...]
The official commercial rights holder of this year’s world chess championship hit two chess websites with a lawsuit in New York federal court, seeking $4.5 million in damages for pirating chess player moves from its website and a block from publishing chess plays. Organizers of the World Chess Championship sued on Monday to block [...]
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would decide, once and for all, whether federal intellectual property regulators can refuse to issue trademarks with disparaging or inappropriate names. At the center of the issue is a section of trademark law that actually forbids the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from approving a trademark [...]
In 2011, Apple filed a patent design lawsuit against Samsung. In 2017, we may finally see an end to the long-running feud between the two largest smartphone makers in the world. Samsung on Monday November 8, 2016 urged the full Federal Circuit, which last month reinstated a $120 million patent infringement verdict that Apple won [...]
