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		<title>Your Trademark Could Soon Be X-Rated</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2011/09/20/your-trademark-could-soon-be-x-rated</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest generic top-level domain, .XXX, is entirely geared towards the adult entertainment industry, and companies within that industry have already begun reserving domain names in anticipation of the domain debut in 2012.  Any trademark owners who do NOT wish to be associated with pornographic sites and content have just a brief window this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Kim Kardashian and Apple Have in Common</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2011/07/22/what-kim-kardashian-and-apple-have-in-common</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both are suing over alleged infringement of intellectual property rights having to do with look-a-likes.  Apple claims the new Galaxy tablet is a mimic and that Samsung &#8220;copied the look, product design, packaging and user interface of [Apple's iPhone and iPad] products.&#8221;  Kim Kardashian asserts that Old Navy used a model as her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2011/05/09/back-from-hiatus</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To all of you SarahSponte readers (mom) missing my posts, I&#8217;m back! After giving birth to my daughter at the start of this year many a great idea has crossed my mind, all of which I discovered were previously conceived and put into public knowledge upon running simple google searches. So as I won&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent for Anti-Cancer Vaccine Issued</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/05/04/patent-for-anti-cancer-vaccine-issued</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 27, 2010, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent 7,704,507 directed to a method for creating an anti-cancer vaccine.  This patent is assigned to the University of Virginia Patent Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh.  This method primes T cells against tumor antigens using a culture of antigen presenting cells (APCs) with protein or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit Your Butt Down, Motion to Dismiss Denied</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/03/04/sit-your-butt-down-motion-to-dismiss-denied</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/03/04/sit-your-butt-down-motion-to-dismiss-denied#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing saga of apparel warfare, the lawsuit between The North Face and The South Butt continues.  The latest action was the court&#8217;s denial of a motion by The South Butt to dismiss the lawsuit.  Read the court order here.  The Judge in this case is apparently not as amused as I am by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notice of Upside Down Document</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/11/notice-of-upside-down-document</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/11/notice-of-upside-down-document#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO has various Notices alerting an applicant to such things as Allowance, Missing Parts, and apparently, Upside Down Documents.  Yes, you read that correctly.
Blogger Erik Sherman recently outed the USPTO&#8217;s archaic practices and equipment with an actual example that is both ironic and hilarious, if not also a bit pathetic.  A practioner submitted documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who dat? Or, Attempting to Appropriate a Trademark</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/05/who-dat-or-attempting-to-appropriate-a-trademark</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/05/who-dat-or-attempting-to-appropriate-a-trademark#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl weekend is here with the Saints and the Colts about to face off for the championship!  Parties are planned, chip and dip aisles are all but bare, and the beer is chilling.  Merchandising aficionados are in a frenzy as team apparel flies off the racks and into the hands of eager fans.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clone Lawsuit Alleges Cloning!</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/29/clone-lawsuit-alleges-cloning</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/29/clone-lawsuit-alleges-cloning#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the irony.
A Chinese company by the name of Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co is preparing to sue Apple if the iPad enters the Chinese market.  This company &#8211; let&#8217;s call it Shenzhen for brevity &#8211; pre-emptively cloned the iPad and released their cloned version, called the P88, three months prior to the Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Readable Media Guidance From USPTO</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/computer-readable-media-guidance-from-uspto</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/computer-readable-media-guidance-from-uspto#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time, the phrase &#8220;computer-readable media&#8221; in software claims has been a buzzword Examiners have latched onto for 101 rejections.  Yesterday, the USPTO released a guidance memo that provides specific language suggested for overcoming or avoiding these rejections.  Interestingly, addition of this suggested language to overcome rejection will not be considered new matter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North vs. South Update</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/north-vs-south-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/north-vs-south-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, still polar opposites.  The lawsuit brought by The North Face against The South Butt continues, with a scheduling conference held yesterday, January 27, 2010.   Both poles, er, sides agreed to a preliminary injunction hearing on April 12, 2010.  A mediation is also purported to be scheduled prior to that hearing.  More to come as [...]]]></description>
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