Intellectual Property News and Reports

SIMO Holdings Inc. owns U.S. Patent No. 9,736,689, which describes apparatuses and methods that allow individuals to reduce roaming charges on cellular networks when traveling outside their home territory. SIMO sued Hong Kong uCloudlink Network Technology Limited and uCloudlink (America),... Read more →

QuikTrip West, Inc. (“QuikTrip”) appeals from a judgment of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) dismissing its opposition to Weigel Stores, Inc.’s (“Weigel”) registration of the design mark W WEIGEL’S KITCHEN NOW OPEN.... Read more →

ABS Global, Inc. appeals the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision in an inter partes review sustaining the patentability of certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,529,161, which is assigned to Cytonome/ST, LLC. Because ABS’s appeal is moot, we dismiss... Read more →

Defendant 375 Canal, LLC (“Canal”), appeals from a judgment entered June 12, 2019, awarding $1.1 million in statutory damages to Plaintiff Omega SA for Canal’s contributory infringement of Omega’s trademarks, arising from sales of counterfeit Omega watches at Canal’s property... Read more →

General Electric Company appeals the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision finding Raytheon Technologies Corporation’s gas turbine engine patent not unpatentable for obviousness. Raytheon moved to dismiss the appeal for lack of standing. Because General Electric alleged sufficient facts to... Read more →

As a student struggling in 1971 to afford art classes at Portland State University, Carolyn Davidson did not say “no” when a businessman offered to pay her to come up with a logo design for his company. She drew a... Read more →

The panel reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of defendants on a copyright infringement claim and affirmed the district court’s dismissal and grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants on a trademark claim concerning the book Oh,... Read more →

Simio, LLC (“Simio”) sued FlexSim Software Products, Inc. (“FlexSim”) in the United States District Court for the District of Utah for infringing U.S. Patent No. 8,156,468 (“the ’468 patent”). The district court held the asserted claims of the ’468 patent... Read more →