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We represented luxury car manufacturer BMW in a trade-mark action over BMW's iconic "M" trade-marks. At trial, we obtained an injunction against Nissan's use of "M" and "M6" in association with its luxury vehicles. The decision was reversed on appeal.

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> US Supreme Court finally issues business method patent decision

The United States Supreme Court has issued its ruling in In Re Bilski on the patentability of business method patents. The Court affirmed the lower c...

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> CIPO, USPTO announce initiatives to accelerate patent examination in select cases

Both the Canadian and U.S. patent offices have recently announced plans to provide select applicants with the opportunity to expedite examination of t...

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> Amazon, appeals, and adwords: IP news from around the world

USPTO issues re-examination certificate to Amazon.com After four years of re-examination, the USPTO recently confirmed, albeit after certain amendmen...

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> US patent rules limiting continuations finally removed from Code of Federal Regulations

Last week, the US Patent Rules were revised to remove the Claims and Continuations Final Rule, which was introduced in 2007 but never implemented. Th...

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> CAFC finds method of drug dosage calibration to be patent-eligible subject matter

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has released its decision in Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services (Fed. Cir....

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> USPTO releases beta site

The United States Patent and Trademark Office released a beta version of its revamped website for public testing and comment. The data available throu...

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> US Supreme Court to review Bilski's machine-or-transformation test

On June 1, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari for In re Bilski, the recent CAFC decision that significantly curtailed the ability to p...

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> Canada reaches the top -- of US infringer watchlist

The United States placed Canada on its "Priority Watch List" of intellectual property rights violators this week. This is the first time that Canada h...

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> Ron Dimock speaks on pharmaceutical data protection

By invitation, Ron Dimock spoke on data protection for innovator drugs on March 25, 2009, at the Second International Conference on Intellectual Prope...

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> US Appeals Court rules on business method patents

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled In Re Bilski that all patents, including business method patents, require that the process c...

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