Space Force & Trademark Searching
What ‘Space Force’ Can Teach Us About the Importance of Trademark Searching In 2018, President Trump directed the Department of Defense to create ...
Trademark Searching for Small Business Owners
The Importance of Conducting a Trademark Search for Small Business Owners Why Getting A Trademark Search Needs To Be The First Step To Starting A Smal...
Finding The Right IP Research Provider
If you are a practicing IP attorney, you can surely attest to the fact that there are numerous IP research providers available for you to use for pate...
Pre-Issuance Submissions by Third Parties
3PS Third Party Submissions – Are they right for you? As you might expect, clients routinely ask us questions about our services as well as strategi...
Quarterly IP Law Update Q3 2017
PATENT LAW UPDATE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: The Hague Agreement is designed to facilitate the protection of industrial designs in multiple countries or regi...
Quarterly IP Law Update Q2 2017
PATENT LAW UPDATE Cayman Islands (KY) (BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES)1: The Patents and Trade Marks (Amendment) Law 2016 is expected to come into force...
USPTO Delegate Green Technology to JPO under PCT
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international agreement that simplifies the filing of patent applications in its contracting States. A PCT a...
AIA Roadshow
Cardinal Intellectual Property (CIP) representatives Ron Andermann and Les Williams attended the AIA roadshow on March 7th at the Chicago Public Libra...
Cardinal IP’s USPTO Contract Renewed
In January 2012, Cardinal received a ten-year contract renewal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to perform Patent Cooperatio...
Patentable Subject Matter Under Section 101
Consistent with that intent and to fulfill the constitutional mandate “to promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts,’ Congress defined t...
Inequitable Conduct Haunts Patents
Inequitable conduct is an equitable defense to patent infringementii. Intent and materiality must be separately establishediii. The standard for the m...
Preissuance Submissions
Third-Party Art Submission for Pre-grant Review For the first time in the history of U.S. patent law, the AIA now allows third parties to submit relev...
Small Entity
Small entity status became law through Public Law 97-247, when the USPTO increased patent fees and allowed small businesses a discount. Congress autho...
AIA Implementation Update – 9/16/2012
On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the AIA into law to bring the patent system into the 21st century. Several key provisions of the AIA w...
Doctrine of Inherency
Disclosure of a prior art reference, whether express, implicit or inherent, may be relied upon to reject claims for lacking novelty under 35 USC secti...
AIA Timeline
On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the AIA into law to bring the patent system into the 21st century. Several key provisions of the AIA w...
Safe Harbor from Double Patenting
35 USC section 121 provides a safe harbor from double patenting rejections against a patentee on claims that were a result of an earlier restriction r...
Micro Entity Update
The micro entity provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123 are currently in effect (see current fee schedule: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee031913.h...
Induced Infringement
A patent owner or licensee can recover damages when exclusionary intellectual property rights are violated. A patent can be infringed directly and ind...
First to File
President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA)-the most significant change to U.S. patent law in almost 60 years – on Friday, Sept...
HR9 MIGHT DAMAGE THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
A patent owner – whether a non-practicing entity (NPE), troll or competing practicing entity – typically begins patent enforcement with either a d...
Interference Estoppel
If a party loses on an issue, it may not re-litigate the issue before the examiner or in a subsequent Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board...
Importance of IP
Innovation—the process, through which new inventions are generated and successfully introduced in the marketplace—is a primary driver of U.S. econ...
Global Patent Search Network (GPSN)
In an effort to expand coverage of worldwide patent collections, the USPTO announced the launch of the Global Patent Search Network (GPSN) to make the...
IP and National Competitiveness
A primary driver of US economic growth and national competitiveness is innovation through which new inventions are generated and successfully introduc...
Observations by Third Parties in EPO Patent Applications
(Effective from August 1, 2011) Within the framework of the “Raising the Bar” project (2nd basket), article 115 EPC enables third parties to prese...
Major Auto Manufacturer Patent Monetization – Press Release
Cardinal Intellectual Property’s Patent Monetization Practice Played Key Role in Sale of Safety Product Patent Portfolio to Major Auto Manufacturer ...
First-Inventor-to-File Final Rules and Cooperative Patent Classification System
On February 13th, the USPTO published final rules of practice implementing the first-inventor-to-file provision of the America Invents Act (AIA). This...
A Primer on AFCP 2.0
Effective Date and Duration of AFCP 2.0: May 19, 2013 until September 30, 2013, a request to consider an amendment after final rejection under AFCP 2....
Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements (Pay for Delay)
The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, also known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, was designed to promote cheap generics as well...
First-Inventor-to-File Regime
Prepare for the First-Inventor-to-File Regime The new First-Inventor-to-File Regime created by the America Invents Act of 2011 begins on March 16, 201...
The Expedited Patent Appeal Pilot (EPAP)
An appellant may participate in a PTAB pilot program called the Expedited Patent Appeal Pilot (EPAP)1 for an expedited review of a pending ex parte ap...
Novelty
Novelty is the quality of being new(2). However, this simple and clear definition is the tip of the iceberg of a complexity that confuses all. For exa...
CHIEF PRIVACY OFFICER and Federal Trade Commission
The privacy policy statement posted on a company’s website binds the company and should be taken very seriously. Accordingly, to protect privacy rig...
Patent Pro Bono Program
Launched by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2011, the Patent Pro Bono Program is currently being offered in all 50 states. Regional pr...
THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
Significant technological advancement and progress in the 21st century made the EU’s last century’s set of rules that defined the personal dat...
OBAMACARE and BIOSIMILARS
Abstract An innovator biologic drug maker files a biologics license application (BLA) with the FDA for the grant of a license for commercial marketing...
Quantity over Quality at the USPTO
Intellectual property (IP) protection affects the economy by providing incentives to invent novel products and technologies that create jobs and boost...
Cardinal Receives Privacy Shield Certification
Cardinal Intellectual Property (CIP) is the first intellectual property services company to receive certification under the new US-EU Privacy Shield d...
Quarterly IP Law Update Q4 2016
PATENT LAW UPDATE Canada (CA)[1]: Effective 11 October 2016, Canadian patents will be issued 6 weeks after the payment of the final fee (issue fee) in...
US-SWISS PRIVACY SHIELD
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Ken Hyatt yesterday (January 11, 2017) announced the final approval of the Swiss-U.S. Priva...