Guest Post by Tim Holbrook, Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. Professor Holbrook has written extensively on the extraterritorial application of U.S. patent law.
Category: Patent / Trademark Law
Will: Trademark office assaults free speech
In 1929, Chief Justice William Howard Taft convinced Congress to finance construction of “a building of dignity and importance” for the Supreme Court. He could not have imagined what the court pondered during arguments last week.
Scams, The Biggest Threat to Patent and Trademark Owners
After threading the tortuous path through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and withstanding assaults of infringers, who would have thought that one of the biggest problems for patent and trademark owners is scammers? These scammers send official looking documents with data downloaded from the Patent and Trademark Office requesting payment for various unnecessary services, such as inclusion in a directory, or sometime for no service at all. The USPTO has created a webpage , but it is largely forgotten by the time the solicitation is received.
Supreme Court to Review Forum Shopping in Patent Infringement Litigation | Brooks Kushman
In a development that may signal a major change in patent litigation practice, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari to hear a challenge to the rules governing where patent owners can file infringement actions against corporate defendants. TC Heartland LLC v.