An engineer-inventor who is suing defendant Patent and Trademark Office for an alleged unreasonable delay in final agency action on 80 of his approximately 400 pending applications  has his suit dismissed as the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff, a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1997, who is the subject of a USPTO disciplinary complaint and investigation alleging plaintiff had prosecuted a trademark application during a period of time when he was ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this suit by plaintiff company, a technology consulting business, against co-owners who allegedly formed a competing business and appropriated logos and content from plaintiff’s website, the Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s Lanham Act claim ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiff tax preparation company may sue two former employees who signed confidentiality and nondisclosure/noncompete agreements for allegedly using plaintiff’s confidential customer lists and copyrighted materials to operate their own competing tax consultant and preparation business; the Newport News U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The “Institute for Justice” wins a preliminary injunction from the Alexandria U.S. District Court against defendant “Independent Journal Review’s” use of an “IJ” logo in this trademark infringement case. Plaintiff Institute for Justice is a not-for-profit, non-partisan public interest law ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant Capital One Financial Corporation successfully defended plaintiff’s patent infringement action and is a “prevailing party,” but this is not an “exceptional case” under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and the Alexandria U.S. District Court awards costs but denies attorney’s fees; ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit alleging false advertising and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, the Charlottesville U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s motion for a trial by jury. Neither plaintiff nor any of the defendants made a jury demand within the time ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A defendant accused of illegally downloading adult content films from plaintiff’s website was not a “prevailing party” entitled to attorney’s fees under federal copyright law because the parties entered a joint stipulation of dismissal without judicial involvement; the Alexandria U.S. ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Quick, what do the Washington Redskins and the Asian-American band named The Slants have in common? If you said monikers that some members of certain ethnic groups find offensive, you would be partially correct. They are also embroiled in litigation ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Intellectual Property

In this dispute over a licensee’s alleged use of an eye-tracking technology licensed by U.Va.’s patent foundation, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court disagrees with the foundation that the licensee’s nonpayment of royalties implicates the scope of the subject patent; the ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District