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Federal Circuit CLS Bank decision on computer-implemented inventions just handed down

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The Federal Circuit has issued its CLS Bank decision on the eligibility of computer-implemented inventions for patenting. The decision is a stunner

Supreme Court decides Bowman v. Monsanto

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision today in Bowman v. Monsanto, holding the doctrine of patent exhaustion does not permit a farmer to

Supreme Court decides Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2013

The U.S. Supreme Court has just issued its decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and its holding could have consequences on

Hot topics in nanotechnology

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2009

Nano this, nano that

Functional claiming and functional disclosure

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2011

Patent attorneys sometimes claim inventions based on the functions that they perform, instead of reciting their structural elements

You are patent prosecution counsel: do you get to see the highly confidential information in litigation?

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2010

If you are patent prosecution counsel for a client involved in patent litigation, you may or may not get to see the confidential information in the litigation

USC’s Trojans hit a home run in a trademark battle over “SC”

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2010

In University of South Carolina v. University of Southern California, No. 20091064 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 19, 2010), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) decision to not cancel an “SC” word mark registration owned by the University of Southern California (Southern Cal), and refusing to register another “SC” design mark owned by the University of South Carolina (South Carolina) in view of, among other things, Southern Cal’s “SC” word mark

The future of multi-defendant patent cases

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2012

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed into law the America Invents Act, which effectuated some of the most sweeping changes in the patent laws since the Patent Act of 1952

Protect your rights as new gTLDs prepare to launch: Trademark Clearinghouse opens March 26 2013

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2013

ICANN, the governing body of the Internet that is overseeing the rollout of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), will launch its Trademark

gTLD application reveal: strategies to protect your rights and brands

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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  • Global
  • -
  • June 13 2012

The application period for new generic top level domains (which will supplement existing gTLDs like “.com”) closed on May 30, 2012