Raymond Van Dyke

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Raymond Van Dyke |Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott

“IP has been a collaborative effort, and the business is global. Global business is good for IP and good for business. Global IP is good for business and vice versa.” ~ Sonja LondonThis week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we speak with Sonja London. Sonia has been general counsel at TactoTek and before that spent 14 years working for Nokia, where she oversaw Nokia’s consumer electronics licensing, global licensing program for connectivity and video codecs, and was responsible for standardization.

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Raymond Van Dyke |Steve Brachmann

“American inventors and our innovations run the world. The engine of our patent system requires refurbishment and fine tuning, not a bid to relegate it to the junk yard.”Jack Dorsey, a tech billionaire, grew exasperated this past weekend by various lawsuits regarding his OpenAI program. It seems that various content owners, such as the New York Times and the Daily News, were upset that their countless articles and writings were scoured by Dorsey’s OpenAI to train Dorsey’s OpenAI, without consent.

Jan 10, 2025 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann |Bruce Berman |Raymond Van Dyke

IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “As we have long recognized, ‘[t]he invention is, for purposes of the ‘written description’ inquiry, whatever is now claimed.” – CAFC opinion The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision reversing a district court’s determination that certain claims of a patent for Novartis’ heart failure drug Entresto were invalid for lack of written description, and affirming a finding that the claims...

Jan 10, 2025 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Bruce Berman |Raymond Van Dyke |Kevin Rieffel

IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “The CAFC agreed that the Board’s interpretations of the claims were sufficient ‘in the absence of a definition within the specification.’”The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision today that upheld an examiner’s rejection of certain claims of a patent application for a cancer immunotherapy invention.

Jan 9, 2025 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Bruce Berman |Raymond Van Dyke |Kevin Rieffel

IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “INTA takes the view that the image of a face of a human being may well serve as a means to distinguish goods and services.” – INTA briefThe International Trademark Association (INTA) announced today that it has filed an amicus brief in a referral to the Grand Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that asks for clarification on registering human faces as trademarks.