U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has requested the Administrative Conference of the United States, the federal agency tasked with making federal functions more efficient, to conduct a study into the...
On January 25, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued sanctions against a group of trademark filing entities (“TFEs”): Abtach, Ltd., 360 Digital Marketing LLC, and Retrocube LLC,...
On September 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Latvian citizen was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for masterminding a trademark mail fraud scheme....
This is something trivial, but important to the daily IP practice. Consistent with 5 U.S.C. §6103(c), which deems “January 20 of each fourth year after 1965, Inauguration Day, is a legal public...
On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the annual defense spending bill, was signed into law. Focused on COVID-19 relief and funding the federal government operations,...
U.S. Patent No. 10,752,636 B2 (‘636) issued on August 25, 2020, entitled ”HIV Inhibitor Compounds.” It was issued to inventors Elizabeth Bacon, Elbert Chin, Jeromy Cottell, Ashley Katana, Darryle...
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that private property “shall not be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Intellectual property rights – patents, trademarks, copyrights,...
A new trademark application for COVID-KUSH was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), on July 30, 2020. The applicant is Anthony Ariza dba Covid-Kush of Santa Clara, California....
Given the current coronavirus pandemic, much has been discussed about possible vaccine trials and antiviral treatments to coronavirus. One patent directed to therapeutic use is U.S. Patent No....
In a major ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held in U.S.P.T.O. v. Booking.com B.V., that an otherwise generic mark used in commerce conveys source-identifying characteristics when used with the “.com”...