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Helen Cassidy

Patent Enforcement on Amazon

Do you sell products in an online marketplace?  Are you interested in applying for patent protection but not sure if your products justify the time...

“Adapted to” Survives Means-Plus-Function Presumption

During prosecution, “adapted to” claim language can often pose problems.  See, for example, MPEP §2114.04 which indicates that such language may be questionable as to...

Your Trademark Home Registration May (Still) Provide a Softer Landing

You have a trademark in your home country and are thinking of expanding to the USA. But in the quite recent past we have witnessed...

JPTOS Publishes Ryan Pool’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say to the USPTO”

The Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society has published the paper “Seven Words You Can Never Say to the USPTO” by Ryan Pool. ...

Written Description: Are We Headed for a New Era of Heightened Messier Requirements?

At least pharmaceutical patents in the US may be headed for more stringent application of written description requirements as well as a more confusing unfocused...

MWZB Seminar in Japan

On March 19, William Nixon (nixon@mwzb.com) and Allison Gaul (gaul@mwzb.com) of the Electrical, Computer, and Software group provided a seminar for our Japanese colleagues on...

University Professor Sues Students for Copyright Infringement

Chapman University professor David Berkovitz has sued his students, as “John Does,” for publishing his midterm and final exams on the platform Course Hero. According...

Positive Times for Negative Limitations: Part 2

Just this month, the Federal Circuit again took up the issue of a negative claim limitation.  But, this time, it was from a different perspective,...

Trademark Practice before the USPTO: A Webpage as a Specimen of Use for Goods

Unless a U.S. trademark application is based solely upon a corresponding registration from a foreign country or is an extension of an International Registration, the...

Positive Times for Negative Limitations

Recently, the Federal Circuit determined that a negative claim limitation, excluding a certain type of dosing in a method of treatment, satisfied the written description...
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