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We have been informed that beginning on Saturday, June 13, 2009, the social networking site Facebook, Inc. will begin allowing users to create personalized URLs for their Facebook pages that incorporate the user’s username, e.g., facebook.com/USERNAME. Facebook has created a form that owners of registered trademarks can use to "reserve" their trademarks on Facebook and […]
Jessica Bromall Sparkman and Rod Berman’s article entitled, “Fraud in the Trademark Office and Fraud in the Patent Office: Different Standards but Both on Appeal”, was published in the June 2009 issue of Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal.
Removal Of Non-Diversity-Based Malpractice Claims To Federal Court — A New Approach? By Amy Lerner Hill and Rod Berman According to attorneys Amy Lerner Hill and Rod Berman of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, patent-related malpractice claims are being placed into federal courts with increasing frequency. The authors discuss the roots of this trend and […]
Clothing manufacturers have long taken note of fashion trends, deciding what current and upcoming designer fashions they’ll recreate and sell to the public at a fraction of the designers’ price. In response, and at the behest of a handful of haute couture designers, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has mobilized and is […]
Recent changes to Singapore patent law have created what some have called the “most complicated patent timelines of any country in the world.” However, in addition to the amended calendar, substantive requirements have also been introduced which put tremendous onus on the applicant to ensure that the patent is valid and all procedural requirements are […]
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 […]
In the fourth quarter of 2005, the Department of Intellectual Property in Thailand implemented new regulations for recording well-known marks. According to the regulations, a well-known mark can be recorded if it meets all of the following criteria: it is a trademark, service mark, certification mark, collective mark or a mark used in respect of […]
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 […]
In August 2005, President Bush signed the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) into law. The other member countries, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, have approved the DR-CAFTA, and the treaty is awaiting approval by the parliament of Costa Rica. The DRCAFTA covers many issues including agriculture, investment, trade in services, the environment […]
The duty of disclosure for patent applicants in Japan differs from the U.S. requirement. In Japan, it is not necessary to submit known prior art. In applications whose filing dates are before Sept. 1, 2002, applicable Japanese law does not require the submission of any prior art, since there is no duty of candor in […]
