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Sep 03, 2025

                  HRFM is proud to congratulate Alana M. Fuierer, Esq., a partner and leader of the firm’s Western New York office in Rochester, for being honored by recognition in the Rochester Business Journal and Rochester Daily Record’s Power 50 Law list! The honor, rightly bestowed on Alana…

Aug 27, 2025

By:  Claire E. Reynolds-Peterson, Ph.D. & Teige P. Sheehan, Esq., Ph.D. A recent jury trial signals a possible important turning point in trademark holders’ ability to police others’ use of their marks even if such use is not necessarily use “as a trademark” per se. The Federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania…

Aug 12, 2025

By:  Morgan J. Sholtis and Teige P. Sheehan, Esq., Ph.D. A recent federal appeals court decision involving Walmart and designer Roxana Russell has created important new guidelines for how online marketplaces handle third-party sellers, with significant implications for businesses operating in the digital marketplace. The case offers crucial insights for creators of copyrightable works and…

Aug 08, 2025

By: Claire E. Reynolds-Peterson, Ph.D. & Teige P. Sheehan, Esq., Ph.D. A recent decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals is another reminder for patent applicants of the ease by which description of a technology in a prior publication can prevent the grant of a patent on a subsequent application. Importantly, this is true even if…

Jun 23, 2025

By:      Joe T. Schuler, Esq. and Teige P. Sheehan, Ph.D. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently handed down what is likely to be the first among many decisions shaping the patentability issues surrounding artificial intelligence. In Recentive Analytics v. Fox, the Federal Circuit leaned on existing law applicable to eligibility of software…

Jun 17, 2025

By: Emily M. Fraser In an amended compliant filed on May 23, Israeli health tech company CardiacSense Ltd. (hereinafter, “CardiacSense”) defended the patent eligibility of its wearable tracker patent, advancing its ongoing legal action against Garmin International Inc. (hereinafter, “Garmin”). The amended compliant follows patent litigation first initiated on May 22, 2024, in which CardiacSense…

May 12, 2025

By: Thomas L. Sica Trade dress is a tricky form of intellectual property.  By law, it is functionally the same as a trademark, but more difficult to establish.  Unlike trademarks which typically consist of words, phrases and/or logos, trade dress consists of elements that do not inherently identify source, such as the total image and…

Apr 24, 2025

Teige Sheehan, Ph.D., will be speaking on a panel regarding obviousness-type double patenting at the American Conference Institute’s 23rd Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents, May 19–20, 2025, at the New York City Bar Association, New York, NY. Registrants can use discount code S10-762-762L25.S for a 10% registration discount.