October, 22nd, 2018 at 2:21 pm
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, whipgroup
WHIPgroup successfully used the Pre-Appeal program to obtain allowance on an application directed to an endoscope for illuminating a manipulating region. The invention uses optical fiber bundles to selectively illuminate different areas of the manipulating [Read More…]
October, 18th, 2018 at 10:06 am
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CBM, IPR, litigation, patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
By Victor Lin On October 11, 2018, the USPTO officially changed the claim construction standard used by the Patent and Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for interpreting claims in post-grant patentability challenges. The PTAB will [Read More…]
October, 16th, 2018 at 11:43 am
Categories: Blog, News Tags: litigation, patent, whipgroup
WHIPgroup filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Stryker Corporation and Stryker Communications, Inc. on behalf of its client Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. in the Northern District of California. KSEA asserts that three patents, one directed [Read More…]
October, 16th, 2018 at 11:01 am
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: branding, trademark, USPTO, whipgroup
By Lauren C. Matturri When Dunkin Donuts announced in September that it would be dropping the “Donuts” from its name, there was a lot of buzz about this new change. This buzz mostly addressed the [Read More…]
October, 12th, 2018 at 10:36 am
Categories: Blog, News Tags: anticounterfeiting, trademark, whipgroup
On October 9th WHIPgroup filed a Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut on behalf of Vineyard Vines. The case is against serial counterfeiters [Read More…]
October, 12th, 2018 at 9:53 am
Categories: Blog, News Tags: computer, software, startup, whipgroup
Fans of HBO’s hit Silicon Valley know of the New Internet as an idea that the Pied Piper team was developing as a way to take control away from centralized servers and put the power [Read More…]
October, 9th, 2018 at 2:49 pm
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CAFC, IPR, litigation, patent, precedential, PTAB, whipgroup
By Benjamin N. Luehrs In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (“the CAFC”) reinvigorated the definition of “real party in interest” (hereinafter “RPI”) as found in the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. §§ [Read More…]
October, 9th, 2018 at 11:23 am
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
Welcome to our Fall 2018 newsletter. We are pleased to provide recent firm news and articles from our WHIP Blog. In the past, we have highlighted our strengths as a patent and trademark prosecution firm. [Read More…]
October, 2nd, 2018 at 9:03 am
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CAFC, litigation, patent, testimony, USPTO, whipgroup
By Georgi Korobanov Recently the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court’s denial of a motion for judgment as a matter of law that challenged the validity of asserted U.S. Patent [Read More…]
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