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USPTO Patent Rules and Practice

• Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Effects
• USPTO Proposes Rulemaking Regarding Ex Parte Appeals
• Online Feedback on Patent and Trademark Examining Procedures
• USPTO to Open Satellite Office in Detroit
• USPTO Implements Pilot Program Effectively Allowing a 12-Month Extension to the Provisional Patent Application Period
• Green Technology Pilot Program Extended Until 2011
• Patent Offices of U.S. and Australia Extend PPH Program
• Validity Analysis Post-KSR:Simplified Flow Charts

U.S. Supreme Court

• Brand-Name and Generic Drug Makers Take Opposing Sides on i4i Supreme Court Appeal

Federal Circuit

• Post-Bilski Cases: What's Answered? What's Next?
  • Research Corp. Tech. v. Microsoft Corp. and Prometheus v. Mayo Collaborative Services
• False Patent Marking Lawsuits:
  • Part I - False Marking Lawsuit Matters
  • Part II - Be Aware and Be Prepared
• Sham Reexamination Request: No State Law Remedies for the Patent Holder
  • Lockwood v. Sheppard Mullin
• Federal Jurisdiction over a Legal Malpractice Claim: Resolution of a Substantial Question of Federal Patent Law
  • Warrior Sports v. Dickinson Wright & John Artz
• Protecting Software Inventions: System and/or Computer-Readable Medium Claims
  • Finjan, Inc. v. Secure Computing Corp.
• Recovering Attorneys' Fees: Wrong Claim Construction Should Not Subject a Party to Sanctions
  • iLOR, LLC. v. Google
• Correcting Inventorship: Heavy Burden to Prove by Clear and Convincing Evidence
  • Shum v. Intel Corp.
• Secondary Considerations Evidence: USPTO Should Consider Commercial Success Evidence of a Single Embodiment
  • In re Glatt Air Technologies
• Prosecution History Estoppel: Arguments During Prosecution Can Narrow Claim Scope
  • ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH v. Canady Tech. LLC.
• Claim Construction: Do You Get What You Claimed or Disclosed?
  • Arlington Industries Inc. v. Bridgeport Fittings, Inc.
• Joint Infringement Requirements: "Control or Direct" and "Agency Relationship or Contractual Obligation"
  • Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc.
• System Claim Infringement: Who "Used" the System? Service Provider or Customer?
  • Centillion Data v. Qwest Communications
• Reasonable Royalty Determination: 25 Percent Rule a "Fundamentally Flawed Tool"
  • Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp
• 35 U.S.C. § 145 Civil Action in District Court: Any New Evidence May be Submitted
  • Hyatt v. Kappos
• Prosecution Laches: Showing of Prejudice Required
  • Cancer Research Technology Ltd. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc.

Legislation

• Patent Reform to be Considered in 112th Congress

USPTO Trademark Rules and Practice

• Sears Wins Fight Against Trademark Disclaimer Requirement
• Bose Watch: The TTAB'S Latest (and Last?) Statement on Trademark Fraud at the USPTO
• Trademark Genericide: "App"

Other News

• 2010 Patent Litigation Study by PWC

Firm News

• Staas & Halsey LLP Offers its Deepest Sympathies to Japan
• Staas & Halsey LLP Attorneys to Attend INTA Annual Meeting in May
• Staas & Halsey LLP Ranked Again in Top 20 U.S. Patent Firms for 2010
• Staas & Halsey LLP Welcomes New Attorneys
• Staas & Halsey LLP Attorney Spotlight - Thomas E. McKiernan
• Staas & Halsey LLP Welcomes and Thanks Seong-Jun "SJ" Park

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