We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-6 of 6

News bytes

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • July 14 2011

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) agrees to participate in a pilot program to test an enhanced framework for the Patent Prosecution Highway

Facebook quietly buys up social networking patents

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • September 30 2010

With little fanfare, Facebook recently purchased a portfolio of patents and patent applications covering a wide range of social networking activities

Briartek files enforcement complaint in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices (337-TA-854)

  • Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • April 11 2013

On April 10, 2013, BriarTek IP, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia ("BriarTek") filed an enforcement complaint in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite

Strategic brand management in a global marketplace

  • Fish & Richardson PC
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • March 28 2013

In today’s globalised market, it is more important than ever to make smart decisions on trademark selection, registration and enforcement. A

New Tools for Arguing Against the Use of Hindsight and Common Sense in Obviousness Rejections

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • July 16 2012

In a victory for patent applicants and owners, a recent decision by the Federal Circuit re-emphasized the importance of the Graham factors to avoid the ever-present risk of using hindsight when making an obviousness determination, and questioned the all-too-familiar reliance on “common sense” to make obviousness arguments

You’re such a happy chappy, just like a budgie in a nappy!

  • Baldwins
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

You've probably heard the saying "It's a crazy old world out there!" Since it's World IP day on 26 April 2013, we thought we'd acknowledge the day