Intellectual Property Law

Last week, the United States Department of Justice announced that Viktors Suhorukovs, a citizen of Latvia, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison and ordered to pay over $4.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to mail fraud in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud owners of U.S. trademark registrations. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued an interim rule further expanding the availability of prioritized examination (Track One) by increasing the limit on the number of Track One requests that may be accepted in a fiscal year from 12,000 to 15,000. Read more

Senators Patrick Leahy and Thom Tillis recently introduced introduced the bipartisan Unleashing American Innovators Act. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)announced plans for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to extend the Motion to Amend (MTA) pilot program. Read more

This week, the United States Department of Justice announced that Viktors Suhorukovs, a citizen of Latvia, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison and ordered to pay over $4.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to mail fraud in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud owners of U.S. trademark registrations. Read more

Two years ago, when I assumed my role as Chair of the IP Section, I – like everyone else – could not have imagined what the last two years would hold. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the deadline for submitting comments on the state of patent eligibility jurisprudence, and its effect on investment and innovation in the United States, to October 15, 2021. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a notice in the Federal Register announcing a modification to its COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program. Read more

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has published an update to its Orange Book patent/biologic patent study. Read more

On August 4, 2021, the Department of Commerce filed for federal registration of the USPTO marks in an effort to protect trademark customers from misleading solicitations and trademark filing scams. Read more