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Patents
Petitioners that attempt to take advantage of the PTAB raising an indefiniteness challenge to patent claims will likely fail, as Hailey Bureau and Chad Rink of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch explain. 28 April 2020
Trademarks
David Potter of HGF explains the headline findings of a survey on brand protection post-Brexit. 28 April 2020
Copyright
State bodies and legislators cannot own the copyright to any works produced in the course of their official duties as lawmakers, the US Supreme Court has ruled. 28 April 2020
Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office has confirmed that an artificial intelligence can’t be named as an inventor on a patent application. 28 April 2020
Patents
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore is launching a pilot programme to accelerate grants of patent applications in all technology fields to just six months. 28 April 2020
Jurisdiction reports
Although the introduction of the IP register of the Eurasian Customs Union is already established, the member states have so far failed to implement it in practice. Therefore, trademarks still have to be separately registered in all national customs registers of the Eurasian Customs Union member states, including Russia. 27 April 2020
Jurisdiction reports
One of the Swedish main food stores just after new year 2020 initiated a new environmentally friendly service: take a picture of the food you have in your fridge, and we will send you back a recipe of what you can make for dinner. 27 April 2020
Jurisdiction reports
Is it possible to obtain a US patent covering cannabis? Conventional wisdom might yield a resounding “no”, but the truth is, the US Patent and Trademark Office has been granting cannabis-related patents, and it is expected that many more will be granted in years to come. 27 April 2020
Trademarks
The CJEU rejected a French company’s application to invalidate the trademark owned by its former supplier. 27 April 2020
Influential Women in IP
There is a significant gender pay gap among in-house counsel, especially in the US and EMEA, according to a new report from a legal research firm. 27 April 2020
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