The period to respond to office actions issued in trademark applications is being shortened. On December 3 the United States Patent and Trademark Office will begin to implement provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 which shorten the office action...
Background Last year, Epic filed a suit alleging that Apple violated antitrust law by forcing all in-app purchases to be routed through Apple’s payment system, where Apple took a 30% cut. The suit was filed after Epic patched the iOS version of Fortnite to sell its...
The Seattle Kraken hockey team announced it would change the name of its restaurant after being sued by a local bar. Seattle Hockey Partners LLC (“the Kraken Team”) announced that they would no longer name their new restaurant “The Kraken Bar & Lounge” after a...
Warner Brothers Studios has secured patent protection for Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System, sparking a debate about the role of Intellectual Property in the gaming industry. Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is a critically acclaimed...
Summary Canopy Growth, one of the world’s largest cannabis companies, has filed suit alleging that GW Pharmaceuticals’ process for producing Epidiolex infringes Canopy’s patent directed to subcritical CO2 cannabis extraction. Background Epidiolex is the first and...
