10 Jul, 2024 TTAB Issues 1st Precedential Opinion in a Trademark Expungement Proceeding By Michael Cicero Introduction On July 1, 2024, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published In...
24 Apr, 2024 Main Text of the FTC's New Rule Banning Restrictive Covenants Quoted Here By Michael Cicero Below is the final text of 16 C.F.R. § 910.2, as it will be published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Federal Register. Such...
22 Apr, 2024 Law360 Article Published on the Duty of Candor Featured in USPTO's AI Ethics Guidance By Michael Cicero I am pleased to share my Law360 article, covering the duty of candor and good faith featured in Guidance on Use of Artificial...
22 Mar, 2024 Mike Cicero Serves as Inaugural Guest Author for Tangibly, Inc.'s Online Newsletter By Michael Cicero Tangibly, Inc., based in Bellevue, Washington with an office in Singapore, provides software platforms that assist organizations with...
15 Feb, 2024 USPTO Publishes Guidance Allowing Use of AI to Derive an Invention if a Human "Significantly Contributed" to It By Michael Cicero Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be named as an “inventor” in a U.S. patent application, but it can be used as a tool to derive an...
30 Oct, 2023 Presentation on Supreme Court Copyright Decision to be Delivered at Nov. 9 Cobb County Bar Association Meeting By Michael Cicero I've accepted the gracious invitation from the Business Law and Litigation Section of the Cobb County Bar Association to speak at that...
13 Sep, 2023 "Supreme Court Toughens Requirements for an Accused Work to Be Deemed 'Transformative' for Copyright Fair Use Defense Purposes," Georgia Bar Journal By Michael Cicero I am pleased to have published my article in the latest edition of the Georgia Bar Journal, discussing the Supreme Court's copyright fair...
22 Aug, 2023 Jeffrey R. Kuester and Michael A. Cicero Update “Intellectual Property Litigation” Chapter of the 2024 Edition of Georgia Business Litigation By Taylor English Jeffrey R. Kuester and Michael A. Cicero further updated their chapter titled “Intellectual Property Litigation” for the 2024 Edition of...
08 Aug, 2023 Starbucks Trade Secret Case Decision Serves Up Timely Reminder About Statutes of Limitation By Michael Cicero In a July 26 decision, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a highly-publicized trade secret...
03 Aug, 2023 Dissenting Federal Circuit Judge Further Exposes Need for Patent Reform Legislation By Michael Cicero Patent eligibility law interpreting Section 101 of the Patent Act has once again come under fire, this time from a dissenting judge of...
21 Jul, 2023 Abitron Austria Takeaways: When Are Acts of Trademark Infringement Beyond the Lanham Act’s Territorial Reach? By Michael Cicero Introduction In Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc. (U.S. June 29, 2023), the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously...
19 Jul, 2023 Split of Authority Continues as to Unauthorized Displays of Copyrighted Material by Embedding Technology By Michael Cicero The Ninth Circuit recently issued a decision involving the use of "embedding" technology to display copyrighted material. The Ninth...