Latest News on Intellectual Property

Google can add another antitrust investigation to its stack. This one has been opened by Spain’s competition authority, the CNMC, which said today it’s concerned about possible anti-competitive practices related to the licensing of news content by local publishers. In a press release it said it is investigating “a series...

With the creation of specialized Chambers in the Federal Court, parties can be confident that judges assigned to their intellectual property matters in Canada will have intellectual property expertise....By: Smart & Biggar...

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in biotechnology products and services is becoming a driver of the personalized medicine and health care sectors. While this integration can require special consideration during development of a patent portfolio, stakeholders across engineering, legal, and executive teams in both...

Calais Abenaki Flint, a corn variety featuring golden yellow and deep maroon kernels, was once a staple food of the Abenaki people living in northern New England. Resilient and relatively quick to mature, the corn was one of the few strains to survive the freezing summer of 1816, which reportedly...

Proto’s realistic, fully self-contained, holographic communications platform and operating system has been granted a patent by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office Proto’s realistic, fully self-contained, holographic communications platform and operating system has been granted a patent by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office...

PLEASANTON, Calif., March 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProSomnus, Inc. (“the Company”) (NASDAQ: OSA), a pioneer in precision medical devices for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed a patent application covering the Company’s proprietary automated manufacturing process...

Faegre Drinker’s Patent Prosecution team is actively recruiting for a full-time Patent Associate to join the Intellectual Property group in our Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Fort Wayne, IN, Indianapolis, IN, Minneapolis, MN, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, DC, or Wilmington, NC, offices. Successful candidates should have 1-3 years of experience drafting patent...

Two circulars recently issued by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines took effect on 14 February 2023. The circulars notably recognise the protection of non-traditional visual trademarks, including colour marks and motion marks....

It is important for in-house counsel and marketing teams to work together to create evidence of secondary meaning, which will take trademarks and trade dress from unprotectable to valuable intellectual property....

Grüneberg and Myers is a quickly-growing boutique intellectual property law firm located in Tysons, Virginia. The firm has an open full-time position for an experienced Patent Attorney or Patent Agent with substantial experience in patent prosecution related to any of the following fields: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, polymers, or specialty chemicals....

Image: Getty Images HP is preventing more customers from using third-party ink with their printers. Numerous reports scattered across Reddit, Twitter, and the HP community forum suggest that a recent printer firmware update is blocking the use of non-HP ink as part of the company’s stringent “dynamic security” policy, as...

The Protecting American Intellectual Property Act of 2022 (“PAIP”) became law on January 5, 2023, establishing a new enforcement procedure to deter the theft of trade secrets from the United States by foreign actors. PAIP aims to enhance the protection of U.S. trade secrets and prevent the unauthorized flow of...