IP Roundup: Legal News From Around the Web

As we’re almost finished with January already, our IP docket is filling up. Is referring to your product as “the most brilliant” mere puffery, or a false claim?  Zale Corporation, known for the Zales jewelry stores, is being sued by the parent company of Jared and Kay Jewelers based on this question.  The jeweler recently began [...]

America Invents Act (AIA) Begins Taking Effect

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act into law.  On September 16, 2012, some of its provisions began taking effect.  Others parts go into effect next spring.  The act’s changes to America’s patent law system are the most sweeping revisions to the law in the past 60 years. By far [...]