The founder of the defendant-Dutch software company learned of the plaintiff-North Carolina software company’s product and reached into North Carolina to initiate a deal between the two companies. The companies entered into an oral contract that was to be substantially ...
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Read More »by Special to The Daily Record BridgeTower Media Newswires ROCHESTER, NY — Since Dec. 18, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has accepted two new types of ex parte proceedings to be filed for trademark purposes: expungement and reexamination. When ...
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A federal jury has awarded $10.65 million to a North Carolina engineering company after finding that another company took its plans for a new product and used them to secure patents by wrongly portraying the technology as its own invention. ...
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Read More »BY KIRK TESKA As is our custom this time of year, the following are the top 10 IP cases of the year. Tampa Brady NFL quarterback Tom Brady is once again seeking to acquire more federal trademark registrations. Last year ...
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Read More »BY KIRK TESKA It’s that time of year again. Without further ado, following are the top 10 IP cases of 2019: Tom Terrific A U.S. Trademark Office examiner was on her game when Tom Brady applied to register “Tom Terrific” ...
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Read More »Where the disputes in this case are related to the use and performance of a drug and will ultimately affect the drug’s value as intellectual property, this action is properly designated as a business court case under G.S. § 7A-45.4(a)(5). ...
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Read More »SciGrip, Inc. v. Osae (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-010-18, 38 pp.) (Michael Robinson, J.) 2018 NCBC 10 Holding: After defendant Osae left plaintiffs’ employ, he went to work for defendant Scott Bader, Inc., in the United Kingdom. Although Osae frequently traveled ...
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Read More »Firebirds International, LLC v. Firebird Restaurant Group, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 004-021-17, 14 pp.) (Robert Conrad Jr., J.) 3:16-cv-00774; W.D.N.C. Holding: Non-party El Fenix is a subsidiary of the Texas defendants, and defendants allegedly infringe plaintiff’s various “Firebirds” trademarks. Even ...
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Read More »Krausz Industries Ltd. v. Smith-Blair, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-001-17, 25 pp.) (Robert Numbers II, USMJ) 5:12-cv-00570; E.D.N.C. Holding: Where defendant sought the opinion of one law firm as to whether defendant’s product infringed plaintiff’s patent and retained another law ...
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A recent change to North Carolina law extended the reach of the state’s business court to cover intellectual property disputes, even if the cases don’t touch on questions of IP ownership, a Business Court judge has ruled. Southeastern Automotive, an ...
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