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RE: Revisions to the Middle District of Florida’s Local Rules

  • November 3, 2020
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  • Wolter VanDyke Davis

Beginning January 1, 2021 practicing in the Middle District of Florida will look a little different due to the Court’s latest revisions of the Local Rules. Due to the numerous changes in the rules that the Court has implemented, a red-line version of the rules will not be made available.…

Congratulations to firm client, Lakeland Motors

  • September 17, 2020
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  • Wolter VanDyke Davis

Congratulations to firm client, Lakeland Motors! On September 17, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division’s grant of full summary judgment in favor of Lakeland Motors. With respect to Off Lease Only’s copyright and trademark infringement claims against…

For Abstract Ideas in Patent Eligibility Analysis, All Equations are NOT Equal.

  • April 12, 2019
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  • Wolter VanDyke Davis

Eugene Molinelli, J.D., Ph.D., © 2019 Eugene Molinelli Abstract. The draft 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (“draft Guidance”) should be modified to treat equations that relate physical phenomena involved in a man-made object, and steps that are not routinely performed mentally, as not per se abstract, but instead directed to…

Scout’s Honor? Binary Branding Gone Bad.

  • November 26, 2018
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  • Wolter VanDyke Davis

What a mess. Kudos to the Boy Scouts of America for opening up its membership to girls, but the gender-specific nature of the branding, plus the undeniable existence of a competing group, the Girl Scouts of the USA, has created a brand battle that would be right at home on…

Cannabis Patents – The Elephant in the Room?

  • August 30, 2018
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  • Wolter VanDyke Davis

I write a lot about trademark issues within the cannabis industry, but there is another aspect of intellectual property that I believe will have a greater impact on the industry than even brand/trademark disputes, and that is patent infringement. Cannabis-related patents have been around for years, but we’re just starting…

Software Patent Eligibility Update

  • April 19, 2017
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  • Wolter VanDyke Davis

Before an invention is evaluated under the standards of novelty and non-obviousness, it must be determined if the invention is patent eligible subject matter. The basic principal is that patent eligible inventions, according to statute, are directed to: a process; machine; article of manufacture; or a composition of matter. However,…