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Spotlight on Jeffrey Midose, one of our 2024 summer associates. We are happy to have Jeffrey spend the summer working with us.

It'sssss Design Patent Tuessssday 🐍 and World Snake Day!

We celebrate by taking a look at US D686,028 S!

Spotlight on Colleen McGuiness, one of our 2024 summer associates. We are happy to have Colleen spend the summer working with us.

On today's UnscrIPted, Jackson Ellis breaks down the Iltaco trademark infringement suit against Little Caesars.

Jackson writes, "With a loyal and feverous backing, Iltaco is hoping to protect their brand against Little Caesars. As the battle of the puffs begins, we must now wait to see who will win this culinary clash."

Read more at the link below!

Iltaco Comes “Hot-n-Ready” With Trademark Infringement Suit Against Little Caesars With a loyal and feverous backing, Iltaco is hoping to protect their brand against Little Caesars. As the battle of the puffs begins, we must now wait to see who will win this culinary clash.

🛸 It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... a design patent!

On World UFO Day, we take a look at US D757,334S for a UFO Nightlight!

Spotlight on Zheyu (Joey) Li, one of our 2024 summer associates. We are happy to have Joey spend the summer working with us.

Another great summer event at the Somerset Patriots | New York Yankees Double-A Baseball Game last week. We all had a great time getting to know our summer associates Jackson Ellis, Colleen McGuiness, Zheyu (Joey) Li and Jeffrey Midose. ,

🍣 It's International Sushi Day!

Design Patent US D588,776S for a Sushi Roll with a Design helps add a personal element to your meal.

This past Friday, Lerner David partners Stephen Roth, Gregg Paradise, Kevin Kocun, Paul Kochanski, and Keith McWha attended the NJIPLA 72nd Annual Jefferson Medal Dinner honoring Judge Chesler.

We were happy to be a part of this wonderful event!

🌽 June 11th is National Corn on the Cob Day (and Design Patent Tuesday)!

To commemorate the day, let's take a look at US D891,201S for Corn Holders!

We kicked off our first week of our 2024 Summer Program with an event at River And Rail Cantina in Cranford. The food, margaritas and company were amazing.

We are excited to welcome our Summer Associates, Zheyu (Joey) Li, Jeffrey Midose, Colleen McGuiness and Jackson Ellis! We are looking forward to a fun and productive summer! So happy to have you as part of the Lerner David team this Summer.

Starting on June 10, 2024, Lerner David will welcome Xiying Fan and Himanshi Shetty for the Rutgers Patent Law Externship Program!

This is the firm's fourth year hosting the externship. The week-long program will consist of interactive sessions on patent procurement, patent litigation, post-grant proceedings, licensing, studies/opinions, and trademarks given by various partners of the firm. The students will also have mentoring sessions with attorneys and partners. We are happy to share our time to support students so they can gain first-hand insight into the world of patent and trademark law!

Today's falls on National Shopping Cart Day!

In celebration of an item that always saves the day when we have one too many things to pick up at the grocery store, we take a look at US D800,986S for a shopping cart!

Congratulations to Lerner David's Natalie Richer and Melanie Chernoff who will be sitting on the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association's board of directors this upcoming year!

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This month, we take a look at and celebrate amazing AAPI innovators.

Alice Min Soo Chun, a Korean American, is co-founder and CEO of Solight Design and the inventor of the Solar PuffTM, which is the world’s only self-inflatable, portable solar light. The Solar Puff is an origami-style solar light that folds flat and transforms into beautiful cube and pyramid shapes when pulled open. Inspired to create a pollution free environment for her son, who was diagnosed with asthma, as well to provide clean lighting in developing countries, Chun focused her research on developing solar technology as a clean energy solution. According to Chun’s company, use of a single solar light, instead of a lightbulb, can save 90 pounds of carbon emissions per year. Since inventing this eco-friendly, sustainable light in 2010, Chun has travelled the globe to bring light to those in need, including those in war and natural disaster zones. Her recent humanitarian efforts brought her to Ukraine, where she hand-delivered her solar light to refugees and the homeless. Chun has received numerous awards, including the 2018 USPTO’s “Patent for Humanity” award, Energy category. She is named among Forbes 50 Over 50 recognizable women of 2022 and is a co-author of the book Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design.

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If you're planning on firing up the grill to celebrate (with 9 friends) and are looking for a tool to make it easier, take a look at Design Patent D609,525 S for a Hamburger Grill Basket!

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This month, we take a look at and celebrate amazing AAPI innovators.

Steven Chen, a Taiwanese American, is a co-founder of YouTube - a video sharing website that has transformed the way we communicate, learn and connect with one another. Steven, the former Chief Technology Officer of YouTube, was instrumental in building YouTube and played a key role in the official launch of the company in December of 2005. At the time of the launch, YouTube received more than two million video views each day, but by the following summer of 2006, YouTube served more than 100 million videos per day. In November of 2006, Chen and his co-founder sold YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars. Steven has generously used his wealth, in part, to pave the way for the next generation of Asian American philanthropists and entrepreneurs who believe in giving back to the community. Among others, he gifted $1 million to his alma mater, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for the creation of the “Innovation Hub,” a facility to support student entrepreneurship.

☕ Today is International Tea Day!

Design Patent US D834,947 S shows a great new way to make the design of a traditional teabag more interesting without changing its functionality!

🚲 This week is National "Bike to Work" Week!

Design patent US D934,120S for an Electric Bike is the perfect invention for those that want to participate but might work just a bit too far away from work 😉

On today's DecIPhered, Matthew Shatynski writes on the updated guidance on obviousness determinations.

Matt writes, "The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance (the “Guidance”) outlining what is required when making an obviousness determination under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of the Supreme Court’s decision in KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 US 398 (2007) (KSR)"

Read more at the link below!

USPTO Provides Updated Guidance on Obviousness Determinations The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance (the “Guidance”) outlining what is required when making an obviousness determination under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of the Supreme Court’s decision in KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 US 398 (2007) (KSR).

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This month, we take a look at and celebrate amazing AAPI innovators.

The late Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist, Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal, was instrumental in the fight against AIDS. She led the team of scientists who were the first to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes. Cloning HIV allowed them to understand how HIV attacks the immune system and ultimately causes AIDS. Her AIDS research not only helped in the development of therapies and medicine to treat AIDS, but provided methods for cloning and understanding viruses. These methods are still used today to better understand modern diseases such as COVID-19.

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This month, we take a look at and celebrate amazing AAPI innovators.

Ajay Batt, an Indian American computer architect, developed several computer-related technologies and is a named inventor on numerous U.S and international patents. He is best known for inventing the Universal Serial Bus, also known as the “USB.” While working for Intel in the early 1990s, he was frustrated by the difficulty his young daughter experienced while connecting to the family’s computer printer. Hoping to solve this problem, he pitched the idea of “Universal Serial Bus” technology to Intel, who approved the project and provided the resources to begin building USB support into its chips. By the late 1990s, the USB became an industry standard specifying the physical interfaces and protocols for connecting, data transferring and powering of hosts, such as personal computers, peripherals, and hubs. It was once the most popular ways of transferring data from one device to another and remains widely used today.

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Taking a look at this design patent filed in 1913 for an ink bottle, we admire and appreciate the consistent dedication of humanity to making everyday objects more enjoyable (even if it's just by making them a little silly 😉).

💇‍♀️ On this week's , we celebrate Hairstyle Appreciation Day as we take a look at this Design Patent for a quick hair-do staple: the claw clip!

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This year, World IP Day is dedicated to the use of intellectual property to reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout 2024. As IP fosters ingenuity and innovation, we hope to aid in its use to achieve SDGs and make the world a better place one invention at a time. 😉 🌱

For more information on this year's World IP Day, visit https://ip-sdgs.wipo.int/!

April is ! As we celebrate this month, we celebrate the impact of Arab American entrepreneurs and inventors.

American surgeon Michael Ellis DeBakey was a legendary physician, educator, and inventor. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, he was the oldest child of Lebanese immigrants. Dr. DeBakey’s work transformed cardiovascular surgery, raised medical education standards, and influenced national health care policy. He pioneered dozens of operative procedures such as aneurysm repair, coronary bypass, and endarterectomy, which routinely save thousands of lives each year. He performed some of the first heart transplants. His inventions included the roller pump (a key component of heart-lung machines) as well as artificial hearts and ventricular assist pumps. From the small Baylor University School of Medicine in Houston, he built a premier medical center, and there trained several generations of top surgeons from all over the world. For 75 years his professional expertise and wisdom informed health care policy in the U.S. and abroad.

This week's falls on National Picnic Day!

As we pack our sandwiches and snacks, we take a look at a USD 489,177S for a Picnic Basket!

On today's Case ClIPs, Matthew Shatynski writes on how the Federal Circuit holds that even if no explicit claim construction took place, if the outcome of the analysis of the claim term establishes the scope and meaning of the patented subject matter, claim construction most likely occurred.

Read more at the link below!

https://www.lernerdavid.com/news-successes/case-clips/federal-circuit-holds-that-even-if-no-explicit-claim-construction-took-place-if-the-outcome-of-the-analysis-of-the-claim-term-establishes-the-scope-and-meaning-of-the-patented-subject-matter-claim-construction-most-likely-occurred

April is ! As we celebrate this month, we celebrate the impact of Arab American entrepreneurs and inventors.

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American scientist, entrepreneur, author, and a leader in the field of expression recognition research and technology development. She is pioneer in Artificial Intelligence with a mission to bring emotional intelligence to a digital world. After growing up in Cairo, Egypt, she earned a PhD in Cambridge University, and then joined the MIT Media Lab as a research scientist, where she spearheaded the application of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health, autism, market research, education, conversational interfaces, robotics, and automotive technologies. She left MIT to co-found Affectiva, a company credited with defining the field of Emotion AI and now works with 28% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the world’s largest advertisers. She is now the Deputy CEO at Smart Eye, which acquired Affectiva in 2021, and remains a leader in Emotion AI. Rana is also the author of her best selling memoir Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity By Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology.