On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina filed a complaint in Federal Court accusing Anheuser-Busch, LLC and one of its distributors of using the tribe’s trademarks without permission in promoting and selling alcoholic beverages.
Unfortunately, in today’s world a single day does not go by without reading about a cybersecurity breach somewhere around the globe, whether related to commercial operations, industry, government units, healthcare institutions, financial entities, political parties, and personal data.
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, President Barack Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016. DTSA amends chapter 90 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the “Espionage Act of 1996”) to provide federal jurisdiction for the theft of trade secrets “if the trade secret is related to a product or service used in, or intended for use in interstate or foreign commerce.”
Two deadly crashes occurred in less than six months involving Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes. All Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes were grounded earlier in the month of March 2019 when one of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crashed within a short period after take-off, taking a steep nosedive. The fatal accident claimed the lives of all 157 people onboard.
On September 16, 2011, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act commonly referred to as “AIA” was enacted into law (P.L. 112-29). President Barack Obama signed the AIA, which represented more than eight years of considerable effort to modernize the U.S. patent system.
Most small businesses fail to take advantage of various tax benefits available to them, most notably in the area of tax credits.
A quantum computer uses photons that exhibit quantum effects as the underlying transport mechanism whereas a digital computer uses electrons and/or the absence of electrons as the underlying transport mechanism. A classical computer has a memory made-up of bits (0, 1) where each bit represents a one or zero. A quantum computer maintains a sequence of qubits.
On May 12, 2016, the Federal Circuit decided Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft, et al. In 2012, Enfish filed suit against Microsoft in the district court of California, alleging that Microsoft’s ADO.NET product infringes several patents related to Enfish patented “self-referential” database.
In view of the recent decision of In Re Petus A.C.M. Nuijten, signal claims are deemed directed to non-statutory subject matter and thus, not eligible for patent protection. This decision, however, appears to be inconsistent with precedents and the intent of Congress.
On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee. The case was first brought in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which concluded that Cuozzo’s claims 10, 14 and 17 were obvious in light of three (3) prior art patents.
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As the Supreme Court reaffirmed in 2012, facilitating the dissemination of creative expression is an important means of fulfilling the constitutional mandate to “promote the Progress of Science” through the copyright system.
To strengthen the position of the United States as the world’s leading inno-vator by amending title 35, United States Code, to protect the property rights of the inventors that grow the country’s economy.
As the Supreme Court reaffirmed in 2012, facilitating the dissemination of creative expression is an important means of fulfilling the constitutional mandate to “promote the Progress of Science” through the copyright system.