Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Tomorrow we will release our second annual Trademark Prosecution Intelligence Report. The report focuses on trademarks filed in the last five years, from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2021. During this period, a total of 2,848,988 trademarks were…
Meta’s financial reports for the first quarter of 2022 have been published recently and so far, its Reality Labs division has lost $2.96 billion, while generating about $650 million in revenue. However, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t worried…
Among the first things you think when you are building your startup, surely logo and business name come right after the product or service you plan to sell. Based on your choices, you may or may not have a trademark, even though nowadays business owners…
CASE OF THE WEEK Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. v. U.S. Venture, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1640, -1641 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 29, 2022) Our Case of the Week has a little bit for everyone, including analysis concerning, lost profits, reasonable…
Last week we released our 4th annual Patent Prosecution Report that covers the patent prosecution landscape in the last five year, between January 1st, 2017 and December 31st, 2021. Thanks to our constant improvements and automation of the data extraction…
To enjoy the privileges of copyright protection, registration is not obligatory, however you see more and more people as well as companies legally register their works at the U.S. Copyright Office. What are the benefits of this move? Public record of your…
You have to meet three conditions in order to achieve trade secret status, protect the information from being disclosed, the secret must have economic value, and the trade secret must remain known to a limited group of people. Provided that your…
Computers nowadays can produce music, poems as well as paint, sometimes even better than humans and all of the above qualifies as copyrightable material. But can it be copyrighted if it’s made from AI? Back in 2018 there was a case which was brought…
Back in January, the Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association) announced that by April they would launch an international body which will fight online piracy for anime, manga and other similar content which is protected…
The Federal Circuit issued numerous precedential opinions last week, two of which answered long simmering questions about inter partes reviews (IPRs). Below we discuss a case addressing whether admissions of prior art in the patent itself can be considered…
Patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets are the main means in a society that grants ownership to inventions and ideas which are always huge benefits to businesses and their employees. But what are the ways it affects the economy, especially ours?…
Everyone lately has been really passionate about the blockchain technology but what is it and how it can help the intellectual property world? To put it in simple words, blockchain is a system of storing information but in a special way that makes it…
