WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC No. 12-1128, clarified the burden shifting framework for certain types of claims stemming from patent licensing agreements. But patent attorneys remain unsure whether patent licensors ...

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WASHINGTON — The battle over ownership rights to the Oscar-nominated film “Raging Bull” landed at the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, as the daughter of the movie’s co-writer sought the justices’ help to avoid a knockout of her copyright infringement claim. ...

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After a jury awarded plaintiff damages of over $30 million in its patent infringement suit against AOL Inc., Google Inc., Target Corporation and other defendants, the Norfolk U.S. District Court awards supplemental damages in excess of $16 million, as well ...

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A plaintiff seeking trademark protection for a fertilizer mark owes the Patent and Trademark Office $32,926.59 in PTO attorney and paralegal salaries under a statute that requires plaintiff to pay “all expenses of the proceeding,” an Alexandria U.S. District Court ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses defendant Capital One’s antitrust counterclaims and strikes its affirmative defense of patent misuse in this lawsuit; the patent misuse defense, like Capital One’s antitrust claims, asserts that plaintiff “patent troll” threatens to enforce in ...

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The U.S. PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board erred in denying Timex registration for the term “INTELLIGENT QUARTZ” in connection with Timex watches on the ground that the term is “descriptive”; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says the term is ...

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In Swatch AG’s challenge to defendant Beehive Wholesale’s trademark application for its “SWAP” watch bands with interchangeable faces, the 4th Circuit affirms dismissal of Swatch’s claims for federal, state and common law trademark infringement, trademark dilution and unfair competition. Swatch ...

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A plaintiff who earlier won legal protection for his drawings of an image like the “Flying B” logo briefly used by the Baltimore Ravens pro football team loses his suit to enjoin the team’s use of the logo in three ...

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In plaintiff Baby Jogger LLC’s suit alleging defendant Britax Child Safety Inc. infringed plaintiff’s patents and trade dress of its baby strollers, the Norfolk U.S. District Court says a jury should hear counterclaims that Baby Jogger infringed Britax’s ‘431 patent ...

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A Norfolk U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss plaintiff’s willful infringement claims on three patents defendant Samsung allegedly infringed for inventions intended to enhance viewing multimedia content on mobile devices’ small screens, after taking judicial notice of a Notice of ...

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