Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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One of the reasons that the majority of countries in the world apply the “first to file” system, including the European Union and China, must be that it’s and easy system to administer. Determination on who was the first to register and…
Earlier this year, it was considered a rumor that EA Sports was considering a name change for its bestseller video game franchise. Since 1993 when the first FIFA International Soccer game was released, they have always used the FIFA trademark for the game…
Day after day the world becomes smaller as more businesses expand overseas with their products or services. However, this comes with a risk of the unauthorized use of your trademark by others, else known as infringement. This risk increases with the…
We all know the importance of trademark registration as a crucial step for protecting your brand identity. But what are some of the steps that you need to take in order to successfully register your trademark, especially when it comes to logos? First of…
PIANO FACTORY GROUP, INC. v. SCHIEDMAYER CELESTA GMBH Before Prost, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The appointments of TTAB judges do not share the constitutional defect that the Supreme Court remedied for…
It’s been more than a week that the 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and branded as Tokyo 2020 begun. But we are in 2021; is this a mistake? Actually not, and the reason behind this is a number of intellectual property…
Patent litigation remained strong in the second quarter of 2021. District court litigation, in particular, increased 11% in Q2 compared to Q1. Inter-Partes Review also went up 17% in Q2. This week, we will look at the IP trends in the first half of 2021 as…
Tomorrow, we are releasing our inaugural Trademark Prosecution Intelligence Report . Similar to our other Insight Reports, for this, we evaluated more than 2.6 million trademark applications filed or registered from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2020. As…
Tomorrow, we are releasing our Third Annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report , where we have analyzed the patent prosecution data for five consecutive years (2016-2020), covering various statistics related to the USPTO, Technology Centers, Art Units,…
The TTAB has affirmed a refusal to register the trade dress configuration mark (see below) of the popular Timberland boot, a wardrobe staple in hip-hop culture ( see The World is Yours by Nas), stating the configuration failed to attain acquired…
In April 2021, big-box retailer Walmart Apollo, LLC (“Walmart”) filed a trademark opposition against Yeezy LLC’s (“Yeezy”) U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88/746444 for its sun rays design mark, shown below…
Earlier this March, we released our second annual ITC Intelligence Report where we examined every ITC investigation and covered high-level statistics about ITC, including all parties, judges and cases, from January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2020.…
