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Archive: 22 Sep 2014
USPTO Decisively Examining Claims for Eligibility Following Alice Corp.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has taken a noticeably stronger stance on subject-matter eligibility following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank. The Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank decision limited software patents that were directed at what the Supreme Court considered to be “abstract ideas.” On August 4, the […]
Where a trademark as registered consists of a combination of a word and a device, whether it will be deemed sufficient use when the word is placed at a corner of one surface of a product package and the device is placed at the diagonal corner on the same surface?
In principle, a registered trademark should always be used in its entirety as it was originally registered. However, use of a registered trademark in practice in a form which differs from the form in which it was registered, but does not affect the identity of the trademark according to general concepts prevailing in the society, […]
In principle, a registered trademark should always be used in its entirety as it was originally registered. However, use of a registered trademark in practice in a form which differs from the form in which it was registered, but does not affect the identity of the trademark according to general concepts prevailing in the society, […]