A karaoke music publisher brought a suit against several Houston bars that played its karaoke tracks without permission, but a Texas federal judge tossed part of the trademark suit. The infringement suit of Phoenix Entertainment Partners LLC’s is one of several hundred the company has filed around the country over its Sound Choice brand of…
In a decision the Patent Trial and Appeal Board acknowledged was ‘unusual’ the PTAB upheld several claims of an IPS Group Inc. electronic parking meter patent while at the same time invalidated a couple of the patent’s other claims. The final decision in inter parts review found that petitioner Duncan Parking Technologies had shown that…
A federal court in New York ruled, that the daughters of a writer whose nursery-rhyme appeared in the TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” won’t be able to bring copyright infringement claims against the show over its use of the ditty “Warm Kitty”. The court held that Ellen Newlin Chase and Margaret Chase Perry can’t…
As the process to leaving the European Union starts for the United Kingdom, attorneys expect Britain to be part of the EU’s new Unified Patent Court, while the separation is finalized. However, questions linger regarding whether the United Kingdom can participate in the court after leaving the EU. The British Prime Minister’s signaling of…
In a previous order by a federal judge invalidated all of the claims of two security system patents for claiming abstract ideas. However in a following decision, judge concluded that she only had jurisdiction to rule on the claims asserted by plaintiff Joao Control & Monitoring Systems. Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District…
Proposed legislation to clarify what is and is not patent-eligible has been advanced by the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law. This is now the second major IP group sent to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Michelle Lee such a proposal. The proposal includes revisions to Section 101 of the Patent…