Stephen C. Carlson Stephen C. Carlson is an associate in the firm's Washington, D.C . The training materials address how to apply the PTO Guidelines in the areas of business, artificial intelligence, and mathematical processing applications. The PTO recognized that each of these three areas have shown a high growth rate and increased examining complexity. The training materials generally direct the Examiner to reject a claim if the answer to the final question is yes. Leon R. Turkevich Leon R. Turkevich is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office and concentrates his practice on patent matters.
Meta tags are invisible keywords describing the contents of an internet site.
Although there is no discussion of the Court's reasoning in the Calvin Designer case, the Court held that the plaintiff was likely to succeed on the merits of proving that this invisible use of a trademark in a meta tag was trademark infringement. Other Courts have reached the opposite result. The court did hint, however, that meta tags may not constitute use of trademarks at all, since they are invisible, and serve only as addresses. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant's use of plaintiff's name in meta tags leading to defendant's web sites constituted a false designation of origin which was likely to deceive the public into believing that the defendants' web pages were connected with or sponsored by the plaintiff. The Court enjoined the defendants' meta tag use but did not issue a published opinion.