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		<title>Sit Your Butt Down, Motion to Dismiss Denied</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/03/04/sit-your-butt-down-motion-to-dismiss-denied</link>
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		<title>Notice of Upside Down Document</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/11/notice-of-upside-down-document</link>
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		<title>Who dat? Or, Attempting to Appropriate a Trademark</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/05/who-dat-or-attempting-to-appropriate-a-trademark</link>
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		<title>Clone Lawsuit Alleges Cloning!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/29/clone-lawsuit-alleges-cloning</link>
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		<title>Computer Readable Media Guidance From USPTO</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/computer-readable-media-guidance-from-uspto</link>
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		<title>North vs. South Update</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/north-vs-south-update</link>
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		<title>The North Face Sues The South Butt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A popular outdoor product company, The North Face, is suing a student-founded start-up company, The South Butt, for trademark infringement.  The North Face complaint includes arguments for likelihood of confusion.  In response to this argument, IP counsel for The South Butt indicated that the public knows &#8220;the difference between a face and a butt.&#8221;
The South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/07/the-north-face-sues-the-south-butt</link>
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		<title>Update to Microsoft Word Lawsuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft released a supplemental patch for Office 2007 that is required for the United States in order to comply with the injunction of August 12, 2009.  From the Microsoft OEM Partner Center:
After this patch is installed, Word will no longer read the Custom XML elements contained within DOCX, DOCM, or XML files. These files will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/12/29/update-to-microsoft-word-lawsuit</link>
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		<title>Blackberry Ban Sought by Prism Technologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A company out of Nebraska, Prism Technologies LLC, has sought an import ban on the Blackberry Curve model claiming patent infringement.  The Curve model is one of the iPhone&#8217;s fiercest competitors.  Read more here.
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		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/12/04/blackberry-ban-sought-prism-technologies</link>
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		<title>No Patented Soup for You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the category of quirky and fun, here is an antique patent from 1865, when recipes were still considered patentable subject matter.  U.S. Patent 47,545 is for Improved Tomato Soup &#8211; and the specification enables you to make an enourmous amount!  If anyone actually tries this recipe out, let me know how it goes.
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		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/19/no-patented-soup-for-you</link>
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