An Alexandria U.S. District Court declines to reconsider its Nov. 8 decision entering judgment for defendant travel agency in this dispute over transfer of a trademark and a business that specializes in travel arrangements for Muslims in the U.S. who ...

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

In this trademark infringement dispute between two travel agencies that serve Hajj and Umrah business for U.S. Muslims traveling on pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina and use a “shadow star” trademark, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says plaintiff agency has ...

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

Where the Patent and Trademark Office denied reconsideration of an earlier decision that plaintiff pharmaceutical company’s request for an amended extension application, based on a change in the PTO’s interpretation of 35 U.S.C. § 156(d)(1) that was apparently announced for ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court transfers to the Alexandria U.S. District Court this suit by plaintiff Delaware corporation alleging that defendants, who live and have their business in Northern Virginia, have infringed plaintiff’s trademark for Greenberry coffee shops with defendants’ ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court engages in claim construction in this case involving gas station fuel-pump technology, as part of the case-within-a-case in a malpractice action against an IP firm. The technology in this case relates to gas station fuel ...

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

A Virginia-based company that developed software for video transmission over the Internet, and had a contract with defendant Internet Technology Broadcasting Corporation, a Delaware company with its principal place of business in Florida, to develop software for the Department of ...

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

In the wake of a jury award of $19.3 million to the manufacturer of a computer keyboard support system in this suit for patent infringement, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies the counterclaim plaintiff’s motion for injunctive relief. The verdict ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In the University of Virginia Patent Foundation’s suit against GE Healthcare alleging infringement of UVa’s patent on a technique for three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of the human body, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court issues an order explaining its construction of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

The foreign owner of patents in suit at issue here – which prevent children from oversteering ride-on vehicles – may maintain standing to sue after transferring ownership of the patents to its affiliated distributor; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says ...

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

A company that developed software for video transmission over the Internet, and had a contract with defendant Internet Technology Broadcasting Corporation to develop software for the Department of Veterans Affairs, can sue for copyright infringement on a theory of vicarious ...

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