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Career opportunities in Privacy Law Event Details

Wine Tasting with IP professors & practicing attorneys Event Details

Susan Harjo, the named plaintiff in the Redskins trademark case, will speak on April 6th at the Law School.  <a href=”http://www.lclark.edu/law/student_groups/intellectual_property_student_organization/events/info/?id=1386”> Event Details </a>

Showing of “Copyright Criminal”, Food & Refreshments will be served. Event Details

Recent court decisions from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 583 F.3d 832.) and the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division Patents Court, United Kingdom (Edwards Lifesciences AG v Cook Biotech Incorporated [2009] EWHC 1304 (Pat) (2009).) have once again highlighted the importance of correctly determining patent ownership prior to litigation. By Ian James Griswold, Ph. D.

This article is meant as an introduction to the discovery and testimony period in an opposition proceeding before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). It will begin by exploring the most recent changes that have been made to discovery—namely the 2007 amendments that made initial disclosures, discovery conferences, and pretrial disclosures a requirement in opposition proceedings. By James Babcock

Here is a post about the MONSTER v VERMONSTER trademark dispute, which dispute Senator Leahy denounced as 'trademark bullying,' when introducing the Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendment Act of 2010.

Fujitsu Transaction Solutions filed a used based application on March 7, 2003, for IPAD, covering 'handheld computing device for wireless networking in a retail environment,' stating a date of first use of January 8, 2002. It was published recently and Apple has taken an extension of time until February 28, to oppose. Apple's date of first use for the iPod is October 23, 2001.