As most of you may know compiling litigation data in India is quite the nightmare because our judiciary is terrible at record keeping and even worse at releasing the statistics to the general public. Digitization has improved things slightly but there remain problems with how data is classified by different High Courts. For example [...]
It was originally believed the XS nameplate would be used for the British automaker’s BMW 3 Series rival, but as we now know, that’s the Jaguar XE. Although there are no hints as to what the Jaguar XS would be, it’s possible the company is working on an even larger model than the existing [...]
In its original panel decision, the Federal Circuit narrowly interpreted the Covered Business Method statue, holding that CBM review is only available when claims themselves are directed towards financial service. " In its decision the court walked through the statue, noting that the focus is on the claimed invention rather than the asserted marketplace [...]
The number of trademark applications for hash tags increased worldwide by 64 per cent last year, according to new research by CompuMark. Since the first application to trademark a hash tag was filed in 2010, there have been over 5,000 such applications, including 2,200 in 2016 alone. Most of the trademarks filed last year [...]
The USPTO awards U.S. Patent No. 9,642,809 to Egalet covering its abuse-deterrent Guardian Technology used to create immediate-, delayed- and/or extended-release tablets for precise drug delivery of one or two different active pharmaceutical ingredients. The patent will be in effect through June 4, 2028. CEO Bob Radie says, "The newly issued patent adds to [...]
Patent: Augmenting text messages with emotion information This patent would automatically add emotional information to text messages, predicting the user’s emotion based on methods of keyboard input. The visual format of the text message would adapt in real time based on the user’s predicted emotion. As the patent notes (and as many people have [...]
