McInnes & McLane LLP

23/02/2022

A critical policy issue to explore is the obligation, ethical or otherwise, to identify works that a computer has created…. Future regulations will need to explore the obligations, if any, that are placed on authors and computer users when seeking protection over generative works. Read more:

If you follow Reese Witherspoon on Twitter, you may notice she has been tweeting about non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, a lot. She currently features an NFT as her Twitter profile picture (abbreviated “pfp” for those in the know).

21/02/2022

Happy President's Day!

18/02/2022

in 1879, Auguste Bartholdi was granted a design for the Statue of Liberty.

16/02/2022

B.E. has been embroiled in litigation with big tech companies for close to a decade now. The CAFC said in its denial that “B.E. has not shown a clear right to a different result here by relying primarily on a self-published article that is outside of the record.”

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The CAFC on Friday denied a petition for writ of mandamus filed by B.E. Technology in November asking the court to intervene to “prevent an unconstitutional deprivation of B.E.’s property rights in the onslaught of IPR proceedings that have been brought to challenge the validity of its most crit...

04/02/2022

Patent rights that have a stronger certainty of validity under Section 101 & a better chance at obtaining injunctive relief against infringers would better leverage the competition that’s already prevalent in the high-tech marketplace.

On January 20, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted 16-6 to advance S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, out of committee and toward a full vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

02/02/2022

in 1975, The U.S. Patent Office was renamed "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office" to incorporate its new function as a trademarking center.

27/01/2022

How does it make any sense that fixing something, which you bought and paid for, is a violation of the manufacturer’s copyright? It’s not, and here’s why.
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How does it make any sense that fixing something, which you bought and paid for, is a violation of the manufacturer’s copyright? It’s not, and here’s why.

25/01/2022

in 1881, Michael Brassill obtained a patent for a candlestick.

21/01/2022

in 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched. It was christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.

19/01/2022

"The unintended consequence of the ruling is that what was once an illegal activity that was hard to track is now a legal activity that is hard to track & increases threats not only to patient safety but to patient privacy." Read more:

A recent recommendation by the U.S. Copyright Office allowing for the bypassing of technological protection measures (TPMs) in medical devices for purposes of repair, maintenance and service has been adopted and immediately put into effect. This is bad news for patient safety.

14/01/2022

The , announced in an unpublished Federal Register Notice that it has established an administrative process for investigating submissions filed with the USPTO in matters that appear to violate the Trademark Rules of Practice.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced in an unpublished Federal Register Notice that it has established an administrative process for investigating submissions filed with the USPTO in trademark matters that appear to violate the Trademark Rules of Practice.

12/01/2022

in 1895, The Printing and Binding Act of 1895 prohibited the copyrighting of any government publication.