Intellectual Property

Index

• Festo: The Beginning Of The End For Doctrine Of Equivalents
• IP That Goes Around Comes Around
• Who Has Standing?
• Do You Have Coverage?
• Server Insufficient For Jurisdiction
• Doom And Gloom For CPA Patent Practice?
• Part Numbers Not Entitled To Copyright Protection
• Navigating The Maze Of Music Rights
• Bad Barbie Dolls
• Counseling Clients About Business Method Patents
• No Dorothy, This Doesn't Fall Under The Old Copyright Rules
• MIT Sues Sony For Patent Infringement
• Intellectual Property Newsletter Issue No. 14 July 2001
• The First Amendment Trumps Hoffman's 'Right Of Publicity'
• Bioinformatics: The New Software Patent Frontier
• Lifting The Veil Of Secrecy: 18-Month Publication Of Patent Applications In The U.S. Under The AIPA And Patent Risk Management
• Federal Circuit Reinstates Handwriting Recognition Patent Suit
• Inevitability of Inevitable Disclosure Under Florida's Uniform Trade Secrets Act
• Avoiding Malpractice In Corporate Name Clearance
• Use Employment Agreements to Protect Trade Secrets
• Products Themselves Can Be Trademarks . . . Sometimes
• COPPA Turns One: FTC Settles With Three Firms Over Violations, Approves Second Safe Harbor
• Federal Internet Regulations: They're Not Just For Kids Anymore
• Playing Dress-up with Tootsie Is OK, Ninth Circuit Rules
• Are Sports Scores in the Public Domain?
• Five Easy Ways to Make Online Contracts More Enforceable
• Inevitability of Inevitable Disclosure Under Florida's Uniform Trade Secrets Act
• USPTO Changes Policy Regarding Use of Terms 'Internet' and 'Intranet' In Trademark Applications
• Dialing for Trademarks: Protecting Generic Terms In Phone Numbers and Domain Names
• European Union Adopts Standard Contract Clauses for Transfers of Personal Data
• Who Owns the Law?
• Trademark Protection in the New '.biz' and '.info' Domains
• It's Hard Enough to Make Boats
• Attorneys Fees Revisited: Rule 68 and Section 505
• New Domain Name . US
• California Needs New Protections For Trade Secrets
• Emerging New Biotechnologies and the Patent Attorneys' Struggle to Best Protect Them
• A Picture Worth a Thousand Lawsuits
• Trade Secret Litigation -- New Challenges when Using the Employment Contract to Protect Trade Secrets, Confidential Information, and Competitive Advantage
• Protecting Trademarks Under New .US Top Level Domain
• Intellectual Property After September 11: Ten Things to Consider
• Stop Competitors Diverting Web Traffic: How to Prevent Misuse of Your Trademarks
• Stand by Your Brand
• Who Invented Hyperlinks? IP Audit Uncovers Potentially Valuable Patent
• When Does a Licensee Have Standing to Sue for Patent Infringement?
• When a Patent License Fails: Looking At and Beyond the Patent Issues
• Patent Federal Circuit Update
• Business Owners Beware
• Fifth Circuit Finds Cybersquatter Liable under Anti-Cybersquatting Act and Texas Anti-Dilution Law
• New Life for Doctrine of Equivalents
• 'Supersubstantial' Similarity Test Does Not Apply to All Fact-Based Works
• Disclosure of Genetically Altered Tobacco Plant Did Not Enable Genetically Altered Tomato Plant
• Hatch-Waxman Act Certification Sufficiency of Notice for Paragraph IV Certification Still in Limbo
• Licensing of a Method Does Not Place the Method on Sale
• Words May Limit a Claim, but a Picture Has Multiple Meanings
• Federal Circuit Awaits 'Bonus Points' to Defendants-Claim Limited by 'Acquiescence'
• Supreme Court Overturns Federal Circuit, Adopts Rule of Reason in Applying Prosecution History Estoppel
• Third Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Use of Name 'Mylanta Night Time Strength' Antacid
• Court Use of Independent Technical Advisor Found to Be Proper
• Commerce Committee Chairman's Privacy Bill Advances To Full Senate Vote, Opposed By Industry
• Ninth Circuit Punts on Issue of Validity of Copyright
• Supreme Court Addresses Federal Circuit Jurisdiction, Reaffirms 'Well-Pleaded Complaint Doctrine' as Limit on Federal Circuit Jurisdiction in Cases Involving Compulsory Patent Counterclaims
• Third Circuit Holds That Burden Is On Advertiser To Prove Truth Of 'Completely Unsubstantiated' Advertising Claims
• Senator Burns Sends Warning Shot Across ICANN's Bow
• Snakes & Snails and DNA Details
• Is Liability Just a Click Away?
• U.S. Supreme Court to Federal Circuit: No Jurisdiction Over Appeal Where Complaint Does Not Allege Claim Arising Under Patent Law
• USPTO Not Required to Continue Interference Declared on an Untimely Amendment
• Federally Registered Trademark May Be Abandoned Based on the Grant of a Single 'Naked' License
• Hunting for Goodwill: Federal Circuit Says Goodwill Is Not Germane to Reasonable Royalty Analysis
• Distinction Between Permissible Repair and Impermissible Reconstruction Is Whether the Part Is 'Readily Replaceable'
• 'All-Limitations Rule' Applies Strictly To Doctrine of Equivalents Infringement
• Study of Domain Name Arbitration System Finds Tilt Toward Trademark Holders
• Ninth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Charity's Lawsuit Contesting Franklin Mint's Use of Princess Diana's Likeness
• Supreme Court Rules on Key Patent Infringement Doctrine
• Federal Circuit Heightens Written Description Requirement for Patents on Genetic Material
• Deep Linking To Newspaper Articles Held Unlawful in Denmark
• Supreme Court Reaffirms Patent Protection Under Doctrine of Equivalents
• Federal Circuit Follows Supreme Court in Holmes
• Court Reverses Itself on Whether Biotech Material in Public Depository May Satisfy Written Description Requirement
• 'Heavy Presumption' That Patent Claim Carries Ordinary and Customary Meaning Revisited
• Patentee in Reissue Application Permitted to Add New Claims Broader Than Non-Elected Claims in Original Patent
• Patent Must Clearly Disclose Structure Corresponding to the 'Means,' or the Doctor Can't Cure the Indefiniteness Disease
• Public Use Analysis Involves Consideration of Totality of the Circumstances
• Patent Owner Cannot Recover Both Reasonable Royalty on Utility Patent and Infringer Profits on Design Patent for the Same Sale
• Partial Summary Judgment May Not Be 'Final' for Purposes of Collateral Estoppel If Claim Mooted Before Trial
• Patent Claim Scope
• Eckerd Pays $1 Million To Resolve Florida Investigation Into Use Of Personal Prescription Information For Marketing Purposes
• Patent Law Update
• What's in a Name?
• Why J. Jonah Jameson Can't Have My Quarter
• Patent Federal Circuit Update
• Fame of Mark Is Dominant and Possibly 'Outcome-Determinative' Factor in Likelihood of Confusion Analysis
• The Role of Parody in Copyright: is a New Wind Blowing?
• Patent Federal Circuit Update
• The Copyright Law's 'Publish or Perish' Requirement
• Sailing on a Notion
• Reiffin v. Microsoft: The Rise and Fall of the So-Called 'Omitted Elements Test'
• Clarifying Wrongful Seizures Under the Trademark Counterfeiting Act
• Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Clarifies Experimental Use Exception