Despite the gauntlet that is the United States Patent and Trademark Office, many of the trademarks which are allowed by the Trademark Office are opposed by some competitor in an administrative law tribunal because they feel the mark violated one of the rules of registration.
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And in the meantime, BlackBerry is relying on very recent rulings that are coming out of the United States Patent Office, who are re-evaluating the patents held by NTP and saying, at least preliminarily, that these patents are not valid, which would make the whole case go away.
Such a concept made its way out of LG HQ and into the hands of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, however, and three years after its submission date, the proposed device has returned to haunt the South Korean manufacturer, in the form of an issued patent.
The venerable patent system in the United States is in danger of succumbing to the same fate.
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For of course we have the entire patent system of the United States of America telling us that the two are absolutely not the same thing.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued KODAK its first trademark registration 100 years ago this week.
It could take up to three months for officials at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to decide.
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On March 6, 2012, without much fanfare the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Apple Patent Number 8, 127, 982.
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Since the United States Patent Office grants patents freely and courts enforce them zealously, every inventive company lives in fear of trolls.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has good news for Samsung, and Samsung has already shared it with Judge Koh in a late-night filing.
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This deal is significant not only for the money Nokia has earned (and will accumulate over time) but for the elimination of existing and pending patent disputes in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
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Taxol, one of the most lucrative chemotherapy drugs ever, lost patent protection in the United States in 2002.
The number of utility patent applications filed in the United States last year exceeded half a million.
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The reality is more complex than those designations imply, as patent rights in the United States under the first-to-file system will depend on the interplay between the dates of filing and of any pre-filing disclosures of the invention.
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Last year it persuaded the United States' Patent Office to throw out a trademark challenge brought by Bacardi, a spirits firm now based in Bermuda and the maker of the world's biggest-selling rum.
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Alarmingly, these patent trolls now account for a majority of all patent litigation in the United States.
In the filing, United States Patent Application 20100207721, Apple is asking for a patent on several methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device.
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The United States threatened to override the patent if Bayer did not drop its prices which it then did.
Government must act the part, as it has in the United States through necessary laws such as bankruptcy and patent rights, protections through courts, incentives such as tax abatements and enabling bodies such as the Small Business Administration.
In the United States, generics are dirt cheap, while the market for patent protected medicines is one of the most lucrative markets for any product.
Perhaps now we know exactly why it's not so big here in the States because somebody, somehow, managed to get a patent on the idea.
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Apple may be banned from importing its new iPhone into the United States if the International Trade Commission in Washington DC finds that Cupertino has violated an HTC patent for connecting to the 4G network.
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As Paul Redmond Michel, an authority on patent law, points out, these operations will be larger than anything either corporation has in the United States.
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What did happen is that for more than two decades, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (which sits below the Supreme Court in the patent appeals process) unilaterally expanded the range of stuff that could be patented.
Writing the majority's opinion in one of the Florida cases, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the court's fiercest conservative, who has spent years arguing for a rollback of federal power, simply slapped away Congress's decision to make states subject to patent suits as, in his view, unnecessary even though the constitution explicitly awards the task of patent protection to the federal government.
So it created a new court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and gave it exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals in patent cases.
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