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USPTO Proposes Major TTAB Changes
On April 4th, the USPTO published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled “Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules of Practice,” Federal Register, Volume 81, No. 64, pp. 19296-19324. Some of the many proposed changes are significant. The .pdf … Continue reading
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Boston Man Sentenced for Fake VIAGRA
A Boston man, Ricky Lugo, was sentenced on March 31, 2015 for selling counterfeit versions of VIAGRA, CIALIS and LEVITRA. Lugo was sentenced to one year in prison for selling the counterfeit medications between June 2013 and March 2014 both in person and on … Continue reading
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Supreme Court to Hear PTAB Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to review whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board uses the correct claim construction standard in America Invents Act reviews, delving into a contentious issue that has sharply divided the judges on the Federal … Continue reading
Merck to Acquire IOMet Pharma
Merck has agreed to pay up to $400 million to acquire IOmet Pharma, a Scottish company that specializes in the development of small molecule-based cancer treatments. IOmet will operate as a division of Merck. The acquisition will include IOmet’s pre-clinical pipeline … Continue reading
USPTO Outage: Update (10:00AM)
According to the most recent update from the USPTO (@ 5:55pm yesterday), the USPTO expects service to be out at least through tomorrow, 25 December 2015. From our perspective, realistically, we think this means that the systems will be unavailable through … Continue reading
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Change in Trademark Law!
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that the name of an Asian-American band — The Slants — is private speech and therefore protected by the First Amendment. The government, the court writes, has no business trying … Continue reading
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PTO Outage
It seems the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s Trademark Electronic Search System (“TESS”) is unavailable at this time. …source…
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GSK to Buy BMS’s HIV Portfolio
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has reached a deal to acquire Bristol-Myers Squibb’s HIV portfolio. GSK will pay $350 million up front and could pay an additional $1 billion depending on developmental and sales milestones. GSK did the deal through its subsidiary … Continue reading
Trade Secrets
A colleague’s article about trade secrets can be found here. ..source…
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Study: Social Media Facilitates “Badness”
Social media sites generate revenue with targeted advertising, based on personal information. As such, they encourage registered users to provide as much information as possible. With limited government oversight, industry standards or incentives to educate users on security, privacy and … Continue reading
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