Benjamin West Janke, Molly Payne Ph.D. Eight years ago, in Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the United States Supreme Court struck down the Lanham Act's bar on registering trademarks that ...
Where the word “means” is not actually recited in a patent claim, case law provides a strong presumption that the claim is not a means-plus-function claim under § 112(f). If it is shown, however, that ...