Tag:USPTO

Denver’s Patent Office Celebrates Five Years as USPTO Director Visits

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sees its satellite locations as a way to spread innovation throughout the U.S. Last week, the Rocky Mountain...

Patent Office Has Eye on AI

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been taking a closer look at how artificial intelligence plays into patents — both in terms of...

Haynes and Boone Secures ITC Patent Infringement Judgment

Haynes and Boone secured a judgment before the International Trade Commission that ACON Laboratories, Inc. and Hangzhou, China-based ACON Biotech Co. imported products into the...

The Alice Conundrum

Intellectual property attorneys working with technology companies have been spending the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp v. CLS...

Is There A Cannabis Trademark Gold Rush?

The more brands that enter a given market, the more important their trademarks become. In the booming legal cannabis market, however, registering a trademark...

Cannabis Patent Survives Early Challenge

The first cannabis patent claim ever litigated in federal court just cleared a hurdle this month. In United Cannabis Corp. v. Pure Hemp, a cannabis...

SCOTUS Hears Offensive Trademark Case

During an hour of oral arguments, both Supreme Court justices and the arguing attorneys before them managed to avoid saying the F-word, in a...

Innovator Indicators

Patent law practitioners tend to have an inkling of where innovation is happening, and in which industries. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton co-authored a study...