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 [...]
“Once the generic is always generic”. This principle has been endorsed by the almost every across the country, including district court in this circuit, as well as the most authoritative treatise on trademarks. The ninth circuit itself has seemed to adopt this rule. The upshot of the principle is that of a mark has [...]
Tiffany & Co. and Christian Louboutin warned the Federal Circuit that an International Trade Commission’s decision revoking trade dress protection for the design of Converse’s Chuck Taylor sneaker “threatens to upset the current equilibrium in trademark law.” The suits, filed in both federal court and the U.S. International Trade Commission, didn't target just no-name companies: [...]
In India, the creation of a new plant variety by any breeder, whether a seed or a biotech research company or an individual farmer, is protected under the Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, 2001 (“the PPVFR Act”). Mr. Essenese Obhan. Mr. Obhan is the Managing Partner of Obhan & Associates, a [...]
Over the last year with the Monsanto-Nuziveedu dispute, India has witnessed one of its biggest IP disputes in the agricultural sector. The Basmati GI dispute also has huge implication but as I’m reminded, often, by several people, geographical indications (GI) do not qualify as IP. These disputes aside, we’ve also come across two other [...]
