October, 23rd, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: trademark, TTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup has filed a trademark Notice of Opposition on behalf of its client Mirage Granito Ceramico SPA (“MGC”) with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Opp. No. 91237302. MGC is an Italian company which sells [Read More…]
October, 17th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: litigation, trademark
By Wesley W. Whitmyer, Jr. The Cardinals may be out of the running for the Fall Classic, but St. Louis—specifically U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri—is still deeply involved in autumn baseball. [Read More…]
October, 13th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: litigation, trademark, TTAB, USPTO
By Walter B. Welsh A specimen showing a photographic depiction of a design mark satisfied use requirements for an applied-for line drawing despite apparent visual differences because the differences were inconsequential and did not change the [Read More…]
September, 29th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
WHIPgroup congratulates Andrew Siuta on passing the Connecticut bar exam.
September, 27th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: PTAB
WHIPgroup triumphs before Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in obtaining a pivotal decision that reverses rejections under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101 & 112. The claimed invention is directed to a device and method for [Read More…]
September, 26th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: IPR, litigation, patent, PTAB, software, USPTO
By Michael J. Kosma A Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Texas recently issued a report and recommendation finding that a plaintiff’s infringement claims were estopped due to prosecution disclaimer from statements made in [Read More…]
September, 26th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: trademark, whipgroup
WHIPgroup has successfully obtained an international trademark registration through WIPO for its IP and Design trademark, International Registration No. 1,364,749, for legal services in international class 45. As legal counsel for numerous US and international [Read More…]
September, 19th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: 101, computer, litigation, patent, software, USPTO
By Andrew P. Siuta In the recent holding in Visual Memory LLC v. NVIDIA Corporation (Fed. Cir. August 15, 2017) the Federal Circuit again addressed the issue of whether a new computer memory system was [Read More…]
September, 14th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
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