Amidst our busyness, being idle just for some time is a leisure; doing nothing and letting things go their own way are just some of the things we aspire to have in our lives every once in a while.

The Hon Neil Brown QC explains why he thinks that a recent NAF decision will allow for greater consideration of a defence based on delay in filing a UDRP A unanimous three person panel has decided ...

The refrain is in some ways familiar. The Federal Circuit early on adopts a patent-specific rule grounded in the particularities of patent procedure and practice. Decades pass, in which the rule is ...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC (Mar. 21, 2017) eliminated the equitable defense of laches in patent cases. While time will ...

The Federal Circuit has held in Symbol Techs. v. Lemelson Med. that the equitable doctrine of laches could be applied to bar enforcement of a patent that issued after applicant’s unreasonable and ...

On 10 June 2022, the US District Court for New Jersey issued its decision on remand from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit directing it to re-examine the issues of laches and disgorgement, ...

After all, even the Ninth Circuit, the major proponent of the laches defence, does not typically allow laches as a defence in cases of wilfulness. The argument, of course, is that laches is an ...

CWL argued that laches should not apply because it had acted within the five-year period after which a trademark becomes incontestable. “Laches is not supposed to be a gotcha defense,” CWL attorney ...

In a dispute involving allegedly counterfeit luxury watches, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court’s finding of trademark infringement, maintaining that the laches ...

For more than 30 years, thousands of Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name ...