2020 Intellectual Property Year-in-Review

The 2020 Intellectual Property Law Year-in-Review presented by L&A Partners Eric Carnevale, Nathan Harris, and Nicole Palmer provided valuable insights on:

Significant developments in patent law in the federal courts in 2020, including:

• Supreme Court decisions affecting patent rights;
• Changes to the PTAB’s practice, in particular regarding petitions for inter partes review; and
• A selection of significant cases decided by the Federal Circuit over the course of the year

Trademark and Copyright decisions from 2020, including:

• Protectability of color trademarks on products and packaging;
• “.sucks” and other generic top-level domains (gTLDs);
• Recovery of trademark infringer’s profits;
• “Use in commerce” requirements in the cannabis industry; and
• the interoperability of software and recent procedural changes at the USPTO in light of the Google v. Oracle copyright case currently before the Supreme Court.

A high-level overview of domestic and international practice updates and trends, including:

• Patentable subject matter;
• Substantive legislation and rule changes;
• Brexit;
• Trade; and
• The global response to the pandemic.

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