This webinar offers the latest developments involving Section 285, covering cases in which attorneys’ fees were awarded based on (1) pre-litigation investigation and (2) PTAB filings, and cases granting fees before the Court of Federal Claims and denying fees on appeal.

Is the Marketing department’s lackadaisical attitude towards external communication keeping you up at night? This webinar will cover the do’s and don’ts of communicating with your business’ customers via email, texts, telephone calls (including call recording), social media, and push notifications. Ed Chansky of Greenber Traurig, LLP will address various compliance regimes, such as CAN-SPAM, TCPA, FTC guidelines, Do-not-call, social media platform rules, and state telemarketing registration laws.

The challenge of enforcing brands online is ever-evolving. In Europe there have been recent developments on both the mechanisms for doing so (ordering ISPs to block websites) and in the rules about which courts have jurisdiction when relying on EU trademarks. Meanwhile, there are open questions before Europe's highest court about the validity (or otherwise) of exhaustive recitations of goods/services.

The Singapore Mediation Convention was signed on August 7 and will facilitate the enforcement of international settlement agreements arising from mediation.  The webinar will focus on the key concepts and  issues that shall be taken into account for intellectual property practitioners.

This webinar will provide an overview of the PTAB Trial Practice Guide Update (published on July 15, 2019), discuss recent developments in IPR practice before the PTAB, and offer some practice tips. Specifically, the discussion will focus on issues relating to multiple petitions, claim construction, and testimonial evidence.

Valid priority claims are key to patent validity. Unfortunately, claiming priority is often taken for granted. Sometimes, applicants do not take proper steps to ensure ownership and transfer of the right of priority, both of which are critical for a valid priority claim. To avoid pitfalls in transfers of the right of priority, practitioners should keep in mind that different countries may have different legal requirements.

The battle between Mattel, the makers of the iconic Barbie doll, and MGA, the company that created the Bratz dolls, did not just feature a decade-long trial over an incredibly successful toy, but a war over who owns ideas.

The webinar will focus on issues concerning the registration of trademarks associated with the sale of various alcoholic beverages, as well as service marks regarding services involving the sale of alcoholic beverages. The webinar will assess the potential for consumer confusion, as well as issues regarding descriptiveness, geographic descriptiveness, genericness, trade dress, and consent agreements when seeking to register a mark used in connection with alcoholic beverages.