Monthly Archives: November 2015
New Font
Working Americans spend almost a third of the workweek checking and reading email. In a 40-hour week, that’s over 11 hours a week reading online communications in fonts that aren’t doing our eyes any favors. Recent studies have considered the readability … Continue reading
AMA Calls for Ban on DTC Pharma Advertising
This past Tuesday, the American Medical Association (“AMA”) called for a ban (in the U.S.) of direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals and implantable medical devices. The AMA cites its belief that DTC advertising contributes to the growing cost of … Continue reading
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Mexican TM Office May Offer Opposition Procedure
Currently, the Mexican trademark system does not provide a method for third parties to oppose applications for potentially infringing third party marks. The Mexican Senate is considering a bill that will introduce an opposition system for trademarks. Under the bill, any … Continue reading
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Purple Pill Update
Further to our post here, Judge Sue Robinson of the US District Court for the District of Delaware issued a temporary order banning Dr. Reddy’s from selling its generic version of AstraZeneca’s Nexium, after the pharmaceutical company objected to its … Continue reading
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Taylor Swift
In dismissing a lawsuit brought by an unknown R&B singer named Jesse Braham against Taylor Swift claiming copyright infringement, the judge referred to Swift’s lyrics. Braham had claimed that the phrases “haters gonna hate” and “players gonna play” were plagiarized from … Continue reading
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L&G Partner Mathew Lombard’s Trade Secrets Presentation at PTMG
L&G partner, Mathew Lombard, spoke last month at the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (“PTMG”) last month on the topic of protection of trade and business secrets. Although I was not able to attend the meeting this year, by all accounts, … Continue reading
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Faulkner Sues Hasbro
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner has filed a lawsuit against Hasbro. Faulkner wants the company to pay her $5 million because it made an inch-tall plastic toy hamster named “Harris Faulkner”. Faulkner, a six-time Emmy winner who anchors “Fox News … Continue reading
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McCarthy Against IP Centralization
In response to calls to centralize all trademark appeals to the Federal Circuit, leading trademark expert – literally, the man who wrote the book on trademarks – J. Thomas McCarthy (and Dina Roumiantseva), think not. With some regularity over the years, … Continue reading
USPTO to Open Satellite Office in Dallas
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is set to open a satellite office in Dallas, Texas on 9 November 2015. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office, opening at the Terminal Annex Federal Building in Dallas on Nov. 9, is one of … Continue reading
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Court Cancels URBAN HOMESTEADING Trademark
In a longstanding dispute between advocates of urban farming and the Dervaes family of Pasadena, a federal district judge gave opponents of the Dervaes’ a partial victory when he ordered cancellation of the trademark for URBAN HOMESTEADING on the grounds … Continue reading
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Mathew Lombard
THE PRINCIPAL REGISTER 