In a much-watched case, the Supreme Court in MedImmune Inc. v. Genentech Inc., 2007 DJDAR 348 (Jan. 9), recently reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and held that a federal district court had subject-matter jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act to hear a suit brought by patent licensee MedImmune against Genentech […]
U.S. District Court in Ohio recently found that use of a competitor’s mark as a metatag on a Web site creates “initial interest confusion,” thereby subjecting the defendant to liability for the metatag use. In Tdata v. Aircraft Technical Publishers, use of ATP’s trademark in metatag data in software developed by Tdata that draws potential […]