Despite legislative uncertainty (e.g., bills that have been passed, multiple times, but not become law), a wide range of brilliant entrepreneurs, industrial companies, investment mavens, and service providers have been consciously and conscientiously advancing the US cannabis industry’s interests.
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This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). This installment will focus on a company named Ridgeview IP.
Ridgeview IP is an IP Edge entity
On November 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a Complaint and Stipulated Order in federal court against an internet phone service provider to stop it from imposing junk fees and making it difficult for users to cancel their service.
Pursuant to the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”), changes to certain procedural rules for ex parte trademark prosecution are now being implemented at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). One of these changes concerns the amount of time
A bipartisan bill is making the rounds in Congress that would constitute the largest privacy and data protection legislation in US history. To date, such legislation has been left to the states, with states like California’s Consumer Privacy Act and
The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari for two intellectual property cases—one relating to patents and another for trademarks.
Patent Case
Relevant to patent law, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide the issue of enablement for patents with so-called
Seyfarth Shaw is a Law Master Sponsor for the 2022 ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference, the biggest advertising, marketing, and promotion law conference in the nation. The conference will take place November 8 – 10 at The Diplomat Beach Resort
This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). This installment will focus on a company named Triumph IP.
Triumph IP claims to own a patent
Obviousness – Don’t Get Tricked
Halloween candy containers have come a long way since I was a kid. Back then, we would use a plastic bag or a pillowcase to hold our trick-or-treating loot. The container market changed in 1986
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has received more than 170 petitions for expungement and reexamination since it began accepting these new filings late last year. And although the Office has issued guidance about how to prepare and submit