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Suit: Housing supplier’s trademark does not cause confusion
HOUSTON – DirecSupply Inc. has filed a lawsuit asserting it is not out to undermine Direct Supply Inc., recent court documents say. The suit, filed Feb. 26 in Houston federal court, explains that...
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Proposed bill could make life harder for patent trolls
A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate could make it harder for so-called patent trolls to take infringement cases to court. Schumer Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) introduced legislation Monday that...
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Head of IP lawyers group calls Leahy patent bill the ‘better approach’
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The head of a national bar association made up primarily of intellectual property lawyers says a Senate version of a measure aimed at curbing abusive patent litigation is...
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Innovation Act most likely to face additional hearings before Senate takes...
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A bill aimed at curbing abusive patent litigation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last month is still awaiting its fate in the U.S. Senate. The Innovation Act,...
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Calif. attorney speaks out against proposed patent reform bills, says they’ll...
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Few have spoken out against the various patent reform measures floating around Congress. But Christopher Banys, a California attorney who represents inventors and...
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White House announces new actions aimed at curbing ‘trolls,’ strengthening...
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — Last week, the Obama administration announced a series of executive actions that aim to protect businesses from so-called “patent trolls,” strengthen the country’s patent...
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Groups react to Obama’s latest actions on patent reform
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — Business groups from across the nation — even the world’s largest software maker, Microsoft — have weighed in following the White House’s announcement of three new...
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Senate committee to consider Leahy’s patent reform bill
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — One of the handful of patent reform bills introduced in Congress will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee later this month. The bill, the Patent Transparency...
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Inventors fear effects of patent litigation reform
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — Eb Bright knows a thing or two about patents. The now-executive vice president and general counsel of Exploramed, a venture-backed medical technology incubation company,...
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Underground Elephant sued for allegedly wrongfully using trademark
Two Texas businesses are suing after another company used its trademark. Neutron Depot LLC and DepotWeb Inc. filed a lawsuit April 11 in the Houston Division of the United States District Court for the...
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Head of IP bar association steps down
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The head of the 17,000-member American Intellectual Property Law Association is stepping down. Q. Todd Dickinson, the executive director of the AIPLA, the national bar...
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PTO provides examiners with guidance on software patents in light of U.S. SC...
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently provided its examiners with guidance on software patents following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that ruled some...
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that overhaul the rules governing court-awarded attorneys’ fees in patent cases will have “significant” implications for so-called...
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PTO extends comment period on new trial proceedings under AIA
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is extending the deadline for comments on new administrative trial proceedings under the America Invents Act. In a June 27 request in...
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Warner says Senate should’ve taken up, passed House bill on patent reform
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The Senate was wrong for not passing the House’s patent reform bill, one U.S. Senate Democrat said. Virginia’s Mark Warner made the comments while campaigning earlier...
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Alleged troll that sued eBay over PTO reexamination dismisses lawsuit
MARSHALL (Legal Newsline) – An alleged “patent troll” that sued eBay earlier this year for daring to ask the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a reexamination of three patents has dismissed its...
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Attorney says U.S. SC decision, lack of PTO guidance killing innovation
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – David Stevens doesn’t know what to tell his clients these days. Stevens, the head of a Silicon Valley law firm – Stevens Law Group in San Jose, Calif. – provides...
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Obama to nominate former Google executive to head PTO
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – President Barack Obama said Thursday he intends to nominate Michelle K. Lee to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Lee currently is the deputy under secretary and...
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