How to Search Trademarks (Part 2) If you’ve read the first article in this series on basic trademark searching and feel ready to expand your skills, read on! This article covers how to search trademarks and more advanced searching techniques within the USPTO’s...
How to Do a Trademark Search? You’ve come up with the perfect name or logo for your new product or service, and now want to trademark it. How do you know that your perfect name or design isn’t already in use? The way to find out is to perform a search in the United...
By Jiho Kim, B.Com/LL.B. (IV), University of Sydney; Intern, Michelson IP What does the future hold for the question of whether software can be protected by copyright law in the U.S.? In Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., the Supreme Court of the United States...
By David Kline Many defendants in patent infringement cases argue that case law (such as VE Holding in 1990) allowing patent lawsuits to be filed in any district in which the defendant has sales have only encouraged abusive patent litigation. They say this practice,...
Patent Infringement By Richard Stockton, Kevin Keenan, and Brad Van Pelt In 2011, Apple sued Samsung for, among other things, patent infringement of three U.S. patents — two claiming designs for parts of a smartphone, and one for a graphical user interface of a...
