The US Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the US Patent and Trademark Office’s policy of requiring its attorneys’ fees…
The USPTO announced that it was launching a pilot program to streamline cancellation proceedings for registered trademarks that may have…
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced the appointment of Laura A. Peter as deputy under secretary of commerce for…
Over the past several months a disturbing practice has been occurring at the USPTO. Trademark pirates are fraudulently changing the…
Up until recently, software patents accounted for about half of all patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark…
Protecting Software Using Patent And Trade Secret Law Traditional legal strategies have pitted trade secret law and patent law against…
35 USC §101 Rejections Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Alice v. CLS Bank in 2014 there has been a…
In a previous article, we discussed a legal strategy for protecting software that involved segmenting software into three tiers and…
Although the protection strategy has changed, the answer is yes. Until recently, software patents accounted for about half of all…
In the day following Michelle Lee's resignation as Director of the USPTO, Joseph Matal was announced as Acting Director.