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A Selection of IP-related Posts by Schott, P.C.

New USPTO Director Andrei Iancu’s Pro-Innovation Remarks

Following the last several years where Congress, the courts, and even the former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director were accused of ...
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Criteria For Patent Law Injunctions

(Presented at the Joint Patent Practice Continuing Legal Education Seminar in May 2018) I. THE PERMANENT INJUNCTION STANDARD ...
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Alice / Patentable Subject Matter Set To Hamilton

Attending the Benjamin Franklin Inn of Court meeting this week, I was witness to this program winning the Inn of Court National ...
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Recent International Decisions: IP Getting Stronger Outside the US

Recent IP decisions reinforce the view that outside the US, IP decisions more often favor patent and trademark ...
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Cache Data Types: Patent Eligible Subject Matter

The question of what software is patent-eligible subject matter is still evolving. The Federal Circuit in Visual Memory v. ...
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Secret Sales Are Prior Art Under The America Invents Act

You sell something but keep the details of the sale a secret. Is this still a sale that ...
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