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  • In a guest blog post, Emma Barraclough reports on some of the academic research presented at the recent CREATe litigation workshop in London
  • A writ of mandamus to force the USPTO to register “The Slants” as a trade mark has been denied by the Federal Circuit. This comes after the USPTO this month issued guidance putting trade mark applications with Section 2(a) issues on hold pending potential Supreme Court review
  • Drinks maker amends its complaint in the District of Columbia seeking a reversal of the USPTO’s registration of the Havana Club mark to the Cuban government
  • Ronald van Tuijl has identified the issues he will focus on during his term as the 2016 president of the International Trademark Association
  • The Delhi High Court has come to the rescue of trade mark applicants, who are aggrieved that the Indian Trade Marks Registry has abandoned nearly 200,000 pending applications
  • Managing IP is rounding up important intellectual property decisions coming out of Canadian courts last year. In copyright, this included the Supreme Court affirming the principle of technological neutrality in copyright law and a Court of Appeal ruling on meta tags
  • The USPTO has suggested 29 pages-worth of changes to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board practice, including to electronic filing, service and electronic communication, streamlining discovery and pre-trial procedures, and making trials more efficient. A proposal to allow testimony by affidavit has been criticised
  • The worth of Yahoo’s patent portfolio, a Second Circuit referral of the Flo & Eddie case, David Kappos’s call for abolishment of Section 101, Alibaba’s membership of the IACC, the copyright implications of Facebook’s new Live feature, and a pick up in US patent grant figures were in the intellectual property headlines in the past week
  • Our regular roundup includes news from the EPO, RCF, KWM, Boult Wade Tennant, Finnegan, Gill Jennings & Every, Ashfords, Haseltine Lake and ITMA
  • The number of petitions filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in March was down on the previous month. So far this USPTO fiscal year, the percentage of challenges to mechanical/business method and bio/pharma patents has increased