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Registering, Maintaining, Enforcing Trademark Rights  
 
 
The importance of due diligence

In recent years, a new standard for fraud has emerged from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). Armed with this new standard, the TTAB has become increasingly willing to cancel entire federal trademark registrations for containing material er

 
 

Watch Out, America: China Files 700,000 Applications in 2007  
 
   

This year China becomes the first country to break the 700,000 patent filings per year barrier, far outstripping No. 2 Japan and far outdistancing every other country in the world in terms of domestic patent filings.

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Pre-Litigation Hardball After Dominant Semiconductors
Enforcing Rights of Copyright Owners is Gov't Role
GPC Obtains 150 Licenses for Acticon Patent Portfolio
USPTO Defeat Admitted
No Claim Preclusion If Devices Not "Essentially the Same"
Key WIPO Body Nominates Candidate for Director General
Getting Protective Over Software Programs

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Brigitta Best Joins CPA as Head of Trademarks
Former Thomson Executive Joins PatentCafe as VP of Sales

 
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Patents in China - Is There Any Real Protection?
Snake Antivenom Can Be Patented, But Hold the Peanut Butter

 
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IN THE COURTS more articles
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Jury Awards Grantley $66 Million
Cadbury's Purple Patch Comes To An End For Now
“Marks” Rule Applied where Opinion Lacks Majority Support

 
TECHNOLOGY more articles
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Owners of Classic American Sports Car Targeted
FUJIFILM Tweaks CCD Sensitivity
Quality Parts Coalition Applauds Repair Clause Legislation
FP7 – IP Tricks And Traps
Looking Inside Apple’s iPhone

 
SME INVENTING more articles
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Recession Rx for Business
The Upside to the Downturn
Conferences: Business Tool or Waste of Money?
Branding and Trademark Law
Infringing copyright requires almost verbatim copying

 
GEOPOLITICS more articles
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IP Academies Galvanizing Efforts to Promote IP Education
Patently Obvious? Getting Protective Over Software Programs
WIPO Signs IP Development Plan with the Republic of Ghana
WIPO Director General Candidates Present their Platforms
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Analysis: Hot Patents Making News

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IBM v Amazon.com
IBM: 5,796,967 - Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service applications (PDF)
IBM: 5,442,771 - Storing Data in an Interactive Network (PDF)
IBM: 7,072,849 - Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service (PDF)
IBM: 5,446,891 - Adjusting Hypertext Links with Weighted User Goals and Activities (PDF)
IBM: 5,319,542 - Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue (PDF)
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VIEW INDUSTRY Aerospace Auto & Transport
Banking/Fin Svc Chemicals Computer Hardware
Computer Software Electronics Energy & Utilities
Health Care Manufacturing Media, Entertainment
Metals & Mining Pharmaceuticals Telecommunications

ALL INDUSTRIES
YTD MOST ACTIVE US PATENT CLASSIFICATIONS (annualized)

CLASS / TITLE 2007 YTD + / -
438-Semiconductor device man48013240 175%
257-Active solid-state devic44923055 177%
D14-Recording, communication27211814 173%
514-Drug, bio-affecting and 34122387 182%
370-Multiplex communications38021901 130%
455-Telecommunications40782497 159%
435-Chemistry: molecular bio31252093 174%
361-Electricity: electrical 17141274 193%
250-Radiant energy22871457 166%
428-Stock material or miscel19621277 169%

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