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 [...]
The legal team of Hindustan Unilever last month made a presentation on issues related to intellectual property rights to a rather unusual audience 14-year-old students from St Xaviers School in Bhandup, a central suburb of Mumbai. The country's largest consumer products company is keen to involve its future consumers in its fight against counterfeit [...]
Aylus Networks, Inc. (“Aylus”) owns the ’412 patent, which “provides systems and methods for implementing digital home networks having a control point located on a wide area network.” The patent teaches various network architectures for streaming and displaying media content using combinations of networked components. These networked components include: (1) a media server (“MS”); [...]
The Supreme Court has, however said there are three judicial exceptions to what is otherwise statutorily patent eligible – laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas. The abstract idea exception is what applies to computer-implemented methods (i.e., software). The Supreme Court has steadfastly refused to define the term ‘abstract idea’ even though it [...]
The new head of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) has hit the ground running in Geneva, and is weighing in on a variety of policy issues, this week providing a list of priorities for the research-based pharma industry at the upcoming annual World Health Assembly.
The Federal Circuit panel consisted of Judges Reyna, Wallach, and Chen. Judge Reyna delivered the panel’s opinion. The patentee cited two recent decisions, In re Magnum Oil International, Ltd., 829 F.3d 1364 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (reversing a Board decision when the Board “adopted arguments on behalf of petitioners that could have been, but were not, [...]
