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Patent and Trademark Bulletin for the District of Massachusetts
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Nutter’s Patent and Trademark Bulletin for the District of Massachusetts is a bi-monthly reporter on recent patent and trademark opinions from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
The April/May issue includes a review of opinions addressing patent issues related to:
- Determination of a reasonable royalty rate and trebling damages for willfulness
- Court revisits inequitable conduct, laches, and equitable estoppel and reverses itself on the issue of joint infringement
- Construction of claim terms in patents disclosing handguards for weapons
- Court finds no literal infringement or infringement under the doctrine of equivalents in dispute over locking devices
- Federal Circuit reverses D. Mass. court on written description requirement under §112
- Supreme Court grants certiorari in In Re Bilski
- Lanham Act protection for confusion as to origin covers only tangible goods