U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has named U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Associate Solicitor Joseph Matal to perform the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. The position is effective June 7, 2017 and follows the resignation of Michelle K. Lee. Matal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As the law has developed over the last several years it has become necessary to file faster, but better and more detailed patent applications that can survive a multitude of new procedural and legal challenges. Some innovations are no longer worth patenting in the U.S., or if patents are sought applicants might want to [...]
Nothing sells faster than a controversy. One might be forgiven, then, for thinking that the latest IP (intellectual property) works in favour of Goswami and Republic to remain in the spotlight. But there’s more at stake here. Especially since the Times Group had lodged a criminal complaint alleging that Goswami along with his colleague [...]
The Plaintiffs and the Respondents had entered into a joint venture to carry on their poker gaming business under ‘www.spartanpoker.com’ from Calcutta, even though the company was based in Maharashtra. This was done as the West Bengal Gambling and Prize Competitions Act, 1957 legalizes poker and does not qualify it as gambling. Plaintiff No. [...]
