Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- a blog post providing an analysis of the oral arguments in Vidal v. Elster, which “involved a provision in the federal Lanham Act that directs the Patent and Trademark Office . . . to refuse to register any mark that identifies ‘a particular living individual’”;
- an article discussing “an opinion dealing largely with how much a patent owner can rely on information and belief-based allegations rather than facts”; and
- an article calling a district court opinion “a decision based on ignorance of patent law that must be overturned.”