TRADING TECHNOLOGIES INTL v. IBG LLC
Before Moore, Clevenger, and Wallach. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Claims directed to providing additional trading information on a prior art display, without more, are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
Before Moore, Wallach, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Summary: Industry skepticism is a question of fact that weighs in favor of non-obviousness and can range on a scale, with the most weight afforded to skepticism that the subject matter is technically infeasible, unworkable, or impossible.
Before Moore, Wallach, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Summary: Industry skepticism is a question of fact that weighs in favor of non-obviousness and can range on a scale, with the most weight afforded to skepticism that the subject matter is technically infeasible, unworkable, or impossible.
Supreme, the popular New York-based American streetwear brand, known by its iconic logo, was created by founder/CEO James Jebbia.
On April 18, 2019, the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential opinion that is making stakeholders in the patent licensing community sit up and take note. The case was Dodocase VR, Inc. v. MerchSource, LLC, holding that a boilerplate forum selection clause in a licensing agreement can prevent a validity challenge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), even though the clause makes no mention of PTAB proceedings.
A Nebraska court upheld a jury’s reasonable royalty award of more than $14 million for infringement of Exmark’s patent relating to lawnmower baffles.
Before Newman, Linn, and Dyk. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Summary: The Trademark Act’s definition of “use in commerce” as a requirement for obtaining a federal trademark does not limit the scope of the “uses” that may constitute trademark infringement.
It’s been 70 years since Carol Channing first sang “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” on Broadway, with Marilyn Monroe singing the more famous rendition four years later on the silver screen. Around the same time as Monroe’s performance, a research group under the direction of General Electric created the first commercially successful synthetic diamond. Fast forward several decades and there are now several methods by which “lab-created diamonds” or “synthetic diamonds,” as they are called in the industry, can be produced.
Before Moore, Mayer, and Linn. Appeal from the Patent and Trial Appeal Board. Summary: A graphical user interface that allows users to place orders for items (such as shares of…
Before: O’Malley, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Summary: A parent patent specification of a continuation-in-part child patent constitutes intrinsic evidence for the purpose of claim construction with respect to statements in the parent specification involving common subject matter with the claim terms at issue.
