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Firm member, Fritz L. Schweitzer III, won a UDRP domain arbitration proceeding ordering the transfer of paulmccartney.com, lindamccartney.com, and linda-mccartney.com to the artists. A challenge of the order in Federal District Court was dismissed with prejudice. Hammerton v. McCartney, et al, US DC MD FL 8:01-cv-00269-SM.

Firm member, Fritz L. Schweitzer III, won a UDRP domain arbitration proceeding ordering the transfer of the domain name villagepeople.org to the trademark owners.

An article written by Rich Basile and published in the The Journal of Proprietary Rights, Vol. 11, No. 9 provides those responsible for correcting Y2K problems in computer systems with a number of patents which may create new problems of patent infringement. The potential erroneous results generated by computers that […]

Wes Whitmyer explains in The Journal of Patent and Trademark Office Society, Volume 80, No. 9 why practitioners should consider the Federal Circuit’s recent use of §112 before rendering advice in any patent matter. He suggests patent litigators carefully compare an accused product to the patent specification and examine the […]

The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) announced its official decision to ignore Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit precedent requiring it to apply the last paragraph of 35 U.S.C. §112 to patentability determinations of means-plus-function claims. This paper briefly explores the legal legitimacy of the PTO’s decisions and briefly […]