Quality Not Quantity – USPTO Quality Assurance Practices
By Joyce B. Klemmer In a report issued on April 10, 2015, the United States Department of Congress, Office of Inspector General, provided its final report on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s...
View ArticleFurther guidance and the light at the end of the tunnel
By: J. Gibson Lanier, Ph.D Just when the patent prosecution community thought that, for better or worse, the standards relating to the subject matter eligibility of claims were set for examination,...
View ArticlePromising News For Software Patents: Federal Circuit Upholds...
By: Greg Kirsch, SGR Partner, Head of Intellectual Property Department The past two years have been challenging times for developers of software and other computer-implemented technology seeking to...
View ArticleFourth Circuit Holds that Policy Requiring Payment of USPTO Attorneys’ Fees...
On March 31 2017 the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit declined to review its decision affirming the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),...
View ArticleTHE SLANTS Mark Registrable as Prohibition of “Derogatory” Marks Held...
By: Jim Bikoff, Darlene Tzou, and Holly Lance On June 19, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. ____ (2017), unanimously holding the disparagement...
View ArticleUSPTO Issues New Guidance to Trademark Examiners in Light of Tam Ruling
On June 26, 2017, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Examination Guide 1-17 to address the Supreme Court’s decision Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), which held that the disparagement...
View ArticleIncreasing Trademark Scams Discussed at USPTO Forum
Last week, the USPTO and TPAC (the Trademark Public Advisory Committee) hosted a public roundtable entitled “Fraudulent Solicitations to Trademark Owners.” The roundtable was chaired by Mary Denison,...
View ArticleSGR Client InfoGation LLC Survives Google IPR Challenge
Smith Gambrell & Russell (SGR) attorneys Michael Makuch and Ryan Varnum successfully defended the validity of a patent covering turn by turn navigation for our client, InfoGation LLC. On September...
View ArticleSGR Partner Scott Woldow Hosts USPTO Dialogue with INTA: “View from the Outside”
SGR Partner Scott Woldow was recently featured in the International Trademark Association’s monthly bulletin regarding a Panel Discussion Scott gave to the Trademark Examination Division. The topic he...
View ArticleQuality Not Quantity – USPTO Quality Assurance Practices
By Joyce B. Klemmer In a report issued on April 10, 2015, the United States Department of Congress, Office of Inspector General, provided its final report on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s...
View ArticleFurther guidance and the light at the end of the tunnel
By: J. Gibson Lanier, Ph.D Just when the patent prosecution community thought that, for better or worse, the standards relating to the subject matter eligibility of claims were set for examination,...
View ArticlePromising News For Software Patents: Federal Circuit Upholds...
By: Greg Kirsch, SGR Partner, Head of Intellectual Property Department The past two years have been challenging times for developers of software and other computer-implemented technology seeking to...
View ArticleFourth Circuit Holds that Policy Requiring Payment of USPTO Attorneys’ Fees...
On March 31 2017 the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit declined to review its decision affirming the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),...
View ArticleTHE SLANTS Mark Registrable as Prohibition of “Derogatory” Marks Held...
By: Jim Bikoff, Darlene Tzou, and Holly Lance On June 19, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. ____ (2017), unanimously holding the disparagement...
View ArticleUSPTO Issues New Guidance to Trademark Examiners in Light of Tam Ruling
On June 26, 2017, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Examination Guide 1-17 to address the Supreme Court’s decision Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), which held that the disparagement...
View ArticleIncreasing Trademark Scams Discussed at USPTO Forum
Last week, the USPTO and TPAC (the Trademark Public Advisory Committee) hosted a public roundtable entitled “Fraudulent Solicitations to Trademark Owners.” The roundtable was chaired by Mary Denison,...
View ArticleSGR Client InfoGation LLC Survives Google IPR Challenge
Smith Gambrell & Russell (SGR) attorneys Michael Makuch and Ryan Varnum successfully defended the validity of a patent covering turn by turn navigation for our client, InfoGation LLC. On September...
View ArticleSGR Partner Scott Woldow Hosts USPTO Dialogue with INTA: “View from the Outside”
SGR Partner Scott Woldow was recently featured in the International Trademark Association’s monthly bulletin regarding a Panel Discussion Scott gave to the Trademark Examination Division. The topic he...
View ArticleSGR’s Kirsch to Present at the European Patent Office in The Hague, Netherlands
SGR’s Greg Kirsch, partner and Head of the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, has been invited to make a presentation at the European Patent Office (EPO), in the Hague, Netherlands, on July 5,...
View ArticleNew Guidelines for Patent Subject Matter Eligibility from the USPTO
On January 7, 2019, the new guidelines for patent subject eligibility went into effect at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). These guidelines, titled “2019 Revised Patent Subject...
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