Supreme court has been receiving a swathe of new patent application for motorcycle. Here are the new launches. Honda Hybrid Engine The Honda Neo Wing concept might be a three-wheeled oddball, but we reckon it hints at the design of the next-generation Goldwing – not least because of the flat-four engine, which is boosted by [...]
Three years after the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank case, software patenting had turned virulent. This decision has, in particular, wreaked havoc in the business method art units, where the statistical probability of securing a patent had been low (compared to other art units) even before the Supreme Court Alice decision. Afterwards, it was [...]
Lord Jonathan Sumption said, "But there have been two occasions in my professional life when I have been shaken in my view that it is all just law. One was my only foray, as Counsel, into patent litigation. I will not trouble you with this unhappy story. It persuaded me that chemical patents at [...]
INTA is the global association of trademark owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property. The Association’s member organizations represent 30,000 trademark professionals and include brand owners from major corporations as well as both small and medium-sized enterprises, law firms and non-profits. There are also government agency members as well as [...]
According to recent research, these worries are becoming reality as inventions that qualify for patent protection in Europe and Asia face the prospect of 101 rejections in the US. In March, a paper by Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan from George Mason law school analysed a dataset of 1,400 patent applications, finding marked differences [...]
According to the complaint in the Chipotle case, in 2006, a photographer approached the plaintiff outside of a Chipotle restaurant and asked her to sign a consent form about some photographs taken inside the restaurant. The woman refused, but in 2014 and 2015, she found a photograph of herself edited into promotional materials placed [...]
