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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday allowed the registration of the trademark “Trump Too Small,” finding that the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) refusal to register the trademark violated the applicant’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The applicant, Steve Elster, had applied to register the trademark with [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office erred when it dismissed opposition by Intel Corporation to potential patents by Qualcomm Incorporated. The Federal Circuit released two rulings over the tech companies’ patent disputes, one regarding multi-processor systems and the other regarding radio [...]

Meta Platforms (previously Facebook) Monday filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in California against unknown defendants operating more than 39,000 websites impersonating the login pages of Meta’s services like Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp to deceive users and steal their login credentials. In its filings, Meta claims that since 2019 the bad actors used [...]

Five major publishing companies have filed a lawsuit against Shopify over pirated learning materials like PDFs of ebooks and test materials. Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education allege that the e-commerce platform failed to remove listings and stores that violate each publishers’ trademarks and copyrights. Their complaint, filed Wednesday in the US [...]

The Delhi High Court on Friday awarded interim relief in a trademark infringement suit to Bacardi and Company Ltd, for its alcoholic beverage called BREEZER by prohibiting the defendant-company Bahety Overseas Pvt Ltd from using the mark called FREEZMIX. Bahety Overseas is a manufacturer of non-alcoholic beverages. It applied for the registration of the mark [...]

My client, Jamie Belcastro, a registered pharmacist, started Belmora LLC, a small, Virginia-based company that sells nonprescription pain relief products, about 20 years ago. For much of this time Bayer AG, the Big Pharma multinational colossus headquartered in Germany—whose gross revenues approach $50 billion—has been trying to use US trademark law to put Belmora out [...]

Two-time Indian Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu was in the news recently and not just for her Bronze medal run at the Tokyo Olympic, 2020. After the historic win, some companies used her feat to promote their brand by using her name and image. This practice was later frowned upon by her marketing firm. Baseline Ventures, [...]

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) machine cannot be an inventor under the Patent Act. The action was a motion for summary judgement concerning two patent applications filed by Stephen Thaler for an AI machine called DABUS. DABUS was listed as the inventor [...]

On August 18, 2021, Senators Blumenthal and Markey asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Tesla for a misleading advertisement about the capabilities of its “Autopilot” technology. The request follows high-profile accidents involving Tesla vehicles and prior requests for FTC action by others. The FTC ought to investigate by considering what evidence, if [...]

South African’s patent office, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission, issued a patent that lists an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor on Wednesday. The patent is the first in the world to list AI as the inventor. The AI, known as DABUS (device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience), was developed by Stephen [...]