ArticleCollegiate Color Trademarks: Not A Pigment Of Your ImaginationSchool colors have long served as a way for students, alumni and fans to show allegiance to their schools. United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleDoes Louis Vuitton's Recent Victory At The US ITC Mark That Tribunal As A Viable Alternative To District Court?While the ITC can provide significant injunctive relief to holders of registered trademarks whose trademarks are infringed, it is not for everyone. United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticlePatent Validity Challenges In The Medical Device And Diagnostic IndustryTo protect their patents, inventors and companies in the medical industry must know how to win the obviousness argument.United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleA Shift In Florida Law Firms' IP ServicesA paradigm shift is apparently underway at a number of Florida's general practice firms. United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleHealthcare Legal News: Volume 6, Number 2When health care providers provide copies of medical records to an individual patient or to third parties at the direction of that individual patient, they are permitted under HIPAA to recover "a reasonable, cost-based fee."United StatesFood, Drugs, Healthcare, Life SciencesDickinson Wright PLLC
ArticlePTO Adopting But-For Materiality In Proposed Revision Of Duty To Disclose RulesOn October 28, 2016, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") again proposed revisions to the materiality standard for the duty to disclose information in patent applications and reexamination proceedings. United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleFinding Consistency Amongst Different Claim Construction StandardsDuring oral arguments in the closely watched Cuozzo Speed Technologies, Inc. v. Lee, the Supreme Court heard arguments from both sides describing the merits and consequences of allowing the PTAB to apply the broadest reasonable interpretation standard in IPR proceedings.United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleProving Trademark Fraud: Intent Is The QuestionAnd just this year, two further decisions point to the fineness of a distinction in proving fraud committed against the USPTO - showing that if claims of fraud are not entirely dead, they're at least on a respirator.United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleRadical Changes To The .com ArenaThis chapter addresses the new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs. United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
Article"Staying" Power: Litigation Stays Under The America Invents ActBetween September 16, 2012, when new forms of patent validity review became available at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, and July 16, 2015, patent challengers filed 3,610 petitions for review at the USPTO.United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione
ArticleStretching Trademark Laws To Protect Product Design And Packaging"Design patents often are difficult to enforce. Utility patents undergo extensive examination and, once granted, have only a limited term. United StatesIntellectual PropertyBrinks Gilson & Lione