by Tim Billick | Aug 6, 2024 | Intellectual Property
What Is an Inter Partes Review (IPR)? If you are a patent holder, you may already know and dread the term inter partes review. An inter partes review or IPR is an administrative trial held before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to determine whether a patent...
by Tim Billick | Aug 6, 2024 | Intellectual Property
2022 is the year for minting, buying, and selling NFTs. Understanding your intellectual property rights has never been more essential. Unfortunately, while many want to invest in NFTs, few understand the potential NFT copyright issues on the horizon. Tim spoke on this...
by Tim Billick | Aug 6, 2024 | Intellectual Property
Congress passed the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) in 2020, and any business owner seeking, holding, or challenging trademarks should be aware of the changes the Act made to trademark law. The TMA decreases the “deadwood” of abandoned trademarks and helps ensure...
by Tim Billick | Jul 2, 2024 | Intellectual Property
Can you diss someone by name in a trademark application? Nope. See Vidal v Elster (aka the “TRUMP TOO SMALL” case). See also, the “names clause” in trademark law, which is prohibition on the registration of a mark that “[c]onsists of or...
by Tim Billick | Jul 2, 2024 | Intellectual Property
Introduction The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) affirmed a district court’s dismissal of Beteiro’s patent infringement cases because of subject matter ineligibility. The patents concerned facilitating remote...
by Tim Billick | Jun 5, 2024 | Intellectual Property
In a recent landmark decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit delivered a significant blow to the Rosen-Durling test, a long-standing method used to determine the obviousness of claimed designs in design patent applications and invalidity proceedings....
