In an effort to help combat an increase in fraudulent trademark filings and registrations, the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA)...

Teaching away and motivation to combine are defenses that may be used to help overcome an obviousness-type rejection of claims in a...

If you are an inventor or business owner, you probably take great pride in your invention or business. But merely having an invention or...

A federal court in New Orleans has allowed a trade secret claim to proceed to trial, even though the alleged trade secrets were disclosed...

In Automotive Body Parts Ass’n v. Ford Global Techs. (Fed. Cir. 2019), Ford accused the Automotive Body Parts Association (ABPA) of...

In the case of In re Morinville, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Court”) affirmed on appeal the decision of the Patent...

The Canadian Federal Court has rejected the problem-solution approach as adopted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) for...

The USPTO has amended the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases to require applicants, registrants, or parties to a trademark proceeding...