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The Federal Circuit decision in Belcher Pharm. v. Hospira, Inc., 11 F.4th 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2021), confirms important details regarding the duty of candor and good faith when interacting with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). For example, withholding information that is material to the patentability of a pending claim of a patent application during prosecution can cause a resultant patent to be found unenforceable. In view of the Belcher decision, the USPTO released a Notice on July 29, 2022 that provides additional guidance on the duty of candor and good faith. Practitioners and non-practitioners that are associated with the examination of patents and patent applications should be vigilant about information that may be material to patentability to avoid having an issued patent be deemed unenforceable.
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By Howard Shire and Sean McConnell
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court set new geographic limits for infringement and false designation of origin claims raised under Sections 1114 and 1125(a) of the Lanham Act. Given the global nature of business today, the decision highlights the need for trademark owners to continually reassess and, perhaps, expand their international trademark registration strategy as product lines and brands become more international in scope.
The Power, Perils and Pitfalls of Lookalikes
By Steven James and Hattie Chessher
In April 2021, a food fight broke out between two of the UK’s largest supermarkets. Marks and Spencer launched legal action against Aldi over the latter’s alleged copy of its signature “Colin the Caterpillar” cake. This article takes a look at the issues surrounding lookalikes, what the English courts have said about them and what can be done by brand owners to protect against the risks they present.
A Diverse Patent Portfolio Better Protects Artificial Intelligence Inventions
By Amir Kashani, Xuechen (Rebecca) Ding and Aseet Patel
Takeaways from 'IBM v. Zillow' from a Patent Drafting Perspective
Part Two of a Two-Part Article
In Part One of this article we discussed the IBM v. Zillow case, where IBM sued Zillow for infringing on seven IBM’s patents directed to artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for estimating property value. The focus was on the difficulties in establishing patent infringement on specific AI algorithms, as well as the strategic advantages of including additional patent claims that target ancillary features of an AI system. In this segment, we analyze the claims made in the Zillow case and present some tips for drafting AI-related claims from the perspective of patent infringement.
By Jeffrey S. Ginsberg and Joyce L. Nadipuram
Federal Circuit Clarifies Motivation to Combine to Achieve the Claimed Invention and Holds IPR Petitioner Must Be Given Opportunity to Reply Where Patent Owner First Proposes Claim Construction In a Response
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