AI’s ‘Uncharted Territory’
AI’s ‘Uncharted Territory’ Rolling out an artificial intelligence system is a bit more difficult than booting up software and saying, “Go.” For one, AI requires training—data that provides the basis ...
DBL Scores Huge Win. Patent Award Doubled!
Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig Scores Huge Win as Water Balloon Patent Award is Upped to $24.5 Million Plus Attorneys’ Fees Texas federal judge doubles jury award for toy company case ...
Canada Joins the Madrid Protocol
Canada Joins the Madrid Protocol For decades, Canada remained a holdout to the international trade-mark registration system known informally as the Madrid Protocol. The Madrid Protocol has been in operation ...
What are Punitive Damages?
What exactly are punitive damages? We’ve all heard of them before, but what exactly are “punitive damages”? According to the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, punitive damages are “awarded ...
USPTO Improving Consistency
Patent Office Takes Steps Towards Improving Consistency of Analysis of Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Patent subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. 101 has been the subject of much attention since the ...
3 Tips for Employment Law Compliance
Employment Law Compliance: Three Tips for Your Company Given that Virginia (and Maryland and the District of Columbia follow the “at-will” principle of employment, it can be tempting for employers ...
Tainted Applications Prompts USPTO Action
Thousands of Tainted Foreign-Based Applications Prompt a USPTO Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Require Non-U.S. Applicants to Hire U.S. Attorneys Responding to a recent flood of filings by foreign-based applicants — ...
Apple Pushes Software Update to Avoid China iPhone Ban
Dragon Wang, a Beijing-based intellectual property lawyer at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig is quoted in an article from Nikkei’s Asian Review. Read more.
China’s New Draft Patent Law Has Innovation at Heart
Erick Robinson, Partner at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, Beijing, and author of China Patent Blog dissects the recently published Draft of the Patent Law Amendments, and discusses the good, the ...
Breaking Brexit News for EU Trademark Registration Owners
Owners of European Union trademark registrations have had cause for concern about whether their EU registrations, which presently extend to every EU member country including Great Britain, will continue to ...