Gear Up For AIA Post-Issuance Proceedings
With the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act comes the implementation of new post-issuance validity proceedings before the USPTO – here’s how to prepare… Click here to read the article. – Managing Intellectual Property, September 5, 2012
In the Press: Super Lawyers names partners Anthony F. Lo Cicero and Charles R. Macedo for 2012
September 2012 Super Lawyers names partners Anthony F. Lo Cicero and Charles R. Macedo New York — Metro 2012 Intellectual Property Super Lawyers
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Bilski to raise questions for different industries
Patent practitioners highlighted the looming questions facing various industries as a result of the US Federal Circuit decision in In re Bilski in a web seminar held last week. The eagerly awaited Bilski decision was published on October 30. While the Court reaffirmed that business methods are patentable, it rejected its previous "useful, concrete and […]
ARE Patent Law Alert: Federal Circuit Affirms Computer-Implemented Financial Management Claims Patent-Ineligible As Capable Of Being Performed Mentally
(July 30, 2012) Just a few weeks after its decision in CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., No. 2011-1301, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 13973 (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2012) recently reported by us, the Federal Circuit again considered the patent-eligibility of claims covering computer-implemented financial management systems, methods, and media. This time the […]
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New York Court to Weigh Tiffany v. eBay’s Effect on Web Service’s Contributory Liability
Click Charles R. Macedo, an attorney with Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, in New York, told BNA that the Tiffany decision, provided it withstands Second Circuit review, carved out a safe harbor protecting online service providers from contributory infringement liability. "Without specific notice of a particular infringement, service providers have no general duty to take […]
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Federal Circuit seeks new patentability test in Bilski
The Federal Circuit last month examined terms such as "tangible", "abstract", "concrete" and "transformative" in the closely watched In re Bilski hearing. Twelve Federal Circuit judges last month questioned lawyers about the definition of terms such as "tangible", "abstract", "concrete" and "transformative", in the closely watched hearing in In re Bilski, which could redefine what […]
ARE Trademark Law Alert: Louboutin v. YSL: Second Circuit Allows Single Color as a Fashion Trademark
The eagerly awaited decision in the Christian Louboutin v. Yves Saint Laurent case was issued by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on September 5, 2012 (Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent Am., Inc., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 18663 (2d Cir. Sept. 5, 2012) ). The appellate court overturned the district court’s ruling that […]
ARE Patent Law Alert: Induced Infringement of Method Claims Can Be Found Even When No Single Party Performs All of the Claimed Steps
(September 7, 2012). On Friday, August 31, 2012, the Federal Circuit issued its much anticipated en banc decision in Akamai Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., and McKesson Technologies, Inc. v. Epic Systems Corp., No. 2009-1372, -1380, -1416, -1417, 2010-1291, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18532 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 31, 2012)(collectively “Akamai”). The Akamai […]
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Fed. Circ. Upholds Judgment For Macy’s In Patent Spat
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