ARE Trademark Law Alert:
Normalization of US Relations With Cuba Opens New Possibilities and Dangers to US Brand Owners

(December 19, 2014).  On December 17, 2014, President Obama announced that the United States would begin to normalize its diplomatic relations with Cuba.  This dramatic reversal of the more than 50 years of hostility between the two countries has not been completely unheralded.  For example, following the withdrawal of subsidies from the Soviet Union after […]

ARE Patent Law Alert: USPTO Issues Preliminary Examination Instructions In View of Supreme Court Decision in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, et al.

In view of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, et al., No. 13-298, 573 U.S. __ (June 19, 2014), holding that the claims of a computer-implemented invention drawn to nothing more than an abstract idea are not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the United States […]