FDA Final Rule Outlaws Certain Brand Names
Your brand that you worked to protect may be in jeopardy. Under the final rule issued by FDA March 19, 2010, manufacturers may not use a brand name of a nontobacco product as the brand name for a...
View ArticleGRIPLA becomes virtually legal
Ask a member of GRIPLA (the Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Law Association) about “second life” a couple days ago, and chances are they would have thought it was either an introduction to a...
View ArticleIP Statistics Confirm Drop Off in 2009
FTI Consulting (“FTI”) recently issued its annual Intellectual Property Statistics, which compiles statistics on intellectual property prosecution and litigation over the past several years. Some of...
View ArticleBilski – A Financial Patent’s Waterloo?
BY JAMES M. BOLLINGER, TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP Law360, New York (July 23, 2010) — Michael Lewis’s best-seller, The Big Short, reads like the best of Agatha Cristie’s mysteries, chronoicling the collapse...
View ArticleKevlar® Trade Secret Theft Trial to Begin July 21
Jury selection for the trial of DuPont’s claims against a Korean competitor, Kolon Industries, for the alleged theft of trade secrets relating to DuPont’s Kevlar® fiber is set to begin July 21 before...
View ArticleVBA IP Section Newsletter (Vol. 1, Issue No. 1)
The Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Section of the Virginia Bar Association recently published its first newsletter. That newsletter can be found here.
View ArticleFDA’s POCA Scoring System for New Drug Names
In spite of FDA’s best efforts, medication errors continue to burden our health care system. These errors can occur for a variety of reasons, ranging from pharmacists incorrectly interpreting the...
View ArticleNew .SUCKS Top-Level Domain is .PROBLEMATIC
This post is from the Troutman Sanders Advisory dated March 31, 2015 authored by Michael “Mike Hobbs, Jr., Karl M. Zielaznicki and Susan Stabe. In a real life version of the classic “prisoner’s...
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