On 11 April 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidance (referred to herein as the Guidance) on the use of artificial intelligence...
On April 23, 2024, the FTC adopted a comprehensive ban on noncompetes. The FTC's noncompete ban affects both intellectual property protection and employment agreements/procedures.
In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision in holding that certain claims of the Virtek patent (U.S. Patent No. 10,052,734) were unpatentable as obvious.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) generally refuses to register the configuration of a product as a trademark when that the configuration either is functional or does not identify...
As reported in an earlier Client Alert, on November 7, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission challenged 100 patents as improperly listed in the Food and Drug Administration's "Approved Drug Products...
The IPO Law Journal recently published a paper titled "Patent Marking Regarding Software Medical Devices." The paper discusses an overview of patent marking-related case law...
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