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Amy Coney Barrett Breaks With Supreme Court Originalists
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMarco Rubio during the 2016 GOP primaries, where Rubio famously questioned the size of one of...
Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Lanham Act’s Names Clause
The National Law Review· 3 days agoSteve Elster filed a US trademark application in 2018 for the mark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for use on...
Lanham Act’s Personal Names Restriction Does Not Violate First Amendment | JD Supra
JD Supra· 6 days agoAs we wrote earlier this year, the Supreme Court granted cert to review Vidal v. Elster, which involved the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) refusal of Steve Elster ...
‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark Case Morphs Into Free Speech Debate
Bloomberg Law· 7 days agoSteve Elster wanted to register “Trump Too Small” as a trademark for shirts and hats but didn’t have the consent of former president Donald Trump. US trademark< ...
Can you cash in by claiming a trademark on a trending nickname, slang word, or phrase?
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 2 days agoCan you register a trademark on a trending term? The Supreme Court just decided a case that gives a...
Redesigning Design Patent Validity | JD Supra
JD Supra· 5 days agoTechnology Operations, LLC. Almost immediately after the Federal Circuit handed down its opinion, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) issued new guidelines for ...
Supreme Court Upholds Names Clause in Trademark Law, Emphasizing Historical and Traditional...
JD Supra· 6 days agoIn a landmark decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the Lanham Act’s provision that prohibits the registration of < ...
Disclosure of Antibody’s Equivalents Not Necessary to Satisfy Written Description and Indefiniteness...
JD Supra· 4 days agoThe United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (“USPTO”) Appeals Review Panel (“the Panel”) recently clarified that means-plus-function claims do not require that the specification ...
Amy Coney Barrett may be poised to split conservatives on the Supreme Court
Politico via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBerkeley law professor Amanda Tyler. Barrett skewers Thomas The divide became evident last week as the court ruled on what was expected to be an amusing but not terribly significant case over ...
Cellect Your Weapon: Navigating Potential Arguments in the Aftermath of In re Cellect
The National Law Review· 3 days agoThe Patent Trial & Appeal Board found several related Cellect patents invalid for ODP in view of...