Intellectual Property Blog
The Intersection of Trade Secrets and Patents
A federal court in New Orleans has allowed a trade secret claim to proceed to trial, even though the alleged trade secrets were disclosed in a patent application. Cajun Servs. Unlimited, LLC v. Benton Energy Serv. Co., No. 17-0491 (R. Doc. 241). The lawsuit...
Protecting Individual Replacement Parts
In Automotive Body Parts Ass’n v. Ford Global Techs. (Fed. Cir. 2019), Ford accused the Automotive Body Parts Association (ABPA) of infringing Ford’s design patents that cover individual parts of Ford’s F-150 truck. The ABPA argued that the patented designs are...
Predictability and Criticality as Factors in the Evaluation of a Patent Specification
The Court of Appeals vacated the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in In Re Global IP Holdings (Fed. Cir. 2019), instructing the Board to include predictability and criticality as factors to consider in determining whether Global IP’s written description...
U.S. Licensed Attorney Requirement for Foreign Trademark Applicants and Registrants
The USPTO has amended the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases to require applicants, registrants, or parties to a trademark proceeding whose domicile is not located in the United States or its territories to be represented by an attorney who is in an active member in...
Supreme Court Finds Bar on Scandalous and Immoral Trademarks Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court has upheld the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Brunetti, 877 F.3d 1330 (Fed. Cir. 2017) holding that the provision of the Lanham Act that bars the registration of “immoral or scandalous” trademarks violates the First Amendment. Iancu v. Brunetti,...
Bankruptcy and Trademark License Agreements
In Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v Tempnology, LLC (Supreme Court 2019), the Supreme Court addressed whether a rejection by a licensor in a bankruptcy proceeding “terminates rights of the licensee that would survive the licensor’s breach under applicable...
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