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Trademarks
Less than a week after settling its trade dress and design patent infringement case with rival Lululemon, clothing company Under Armour has asked a US court to declare it has not infringed two trademarks. 2 November 2017
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has backed a lower court in finding that patents owned by technology company Two-Way Media are invalid under the Alice v CLS Bank test. 2 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
One of the requirements for a trademark to be registered in Malaysia is that the mark or device has to be used ‘in the course of trade’. A clarification of this definition was raised in the case of Mesuma Sports v Majlis Sukan Negara (2015). Kelvin Ganesan of Henry Goh reports. 1 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
With the enactment of the America Invents Act (AIA), signed into law on September 16, 2011 and effective as of March 16, 2013, there are radically new criteria governing who will be awarded a US patent, writes Paul Sutton of Sutton Magidoff. 1 November 2017
Trademarks
The English Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from The London Taxi Company against a finding that designs of the city’s famous black cabs lack distinctive character. 1 November 2017
Trademarks
Several amendments to regulations under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol came into force today. 1 November 2017
Trademarks
The European Union Intellectual Property Office has revoked a trademark owned by luxury jewellery business Cartier International. 1 November 2017
Trademarks
The US governing body for amateur American football has settled a trademark infringement dispute with the US Federation of American Football. 1 November 2017
Patents
The US International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate a complaint that Samsung products, including mobile phones, tablets and laptops, have infringed two patents covering semiconductors. 1 November 2017
Patents
Decisions restating the doctrine of equivalents by English and German courts within the past year, especially in the Eli Lilly v Actavis litigations, suggest a review of how the DOE is applied in the US, writes John Pegram of Fish & Richardson. 1 November 2017
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