Blog: Protecting Businesses and Their Owners
The State Water Board has Curtailed All Post-1914 Water Rights Permits, Licenses, Registrations and Certificates.
On May 1, 2015 the State Water Resources Control Board issued an immediate curtailment notice to those diverting water from the Sacramento River Watershed and Delta under a Post-1914 water right permit, license, registration or certificate. This curtailment follows...
You can wait before suing on a patent
Latches is an equitable doctrine that says you can't know about a claim you could bring and then wait years before bringing a lawsuit. The idea is that after a while, people should be able to rely on the fact that you haven't sued to indicate that you won't. Last...
Who is running the USPTO?
Since Donald Trump's inauguration, there has been confusion about who is running the USPTO. The USPTO's site says it is Michelle Lee, but the Department of Commerce's site (which is in charge of the USPTO) says the position is vacant. Because of a quirk in federal...
Another one bites the dust (design patent valuations expected to drop)
It never made sense to me that design patents -- patents that protect an ornamental design instead of a functional aspect of a device -- used a formula for determining damages that made them far more valuable than utility patents. District courts have traditionally...
A brief post about USPTO events
The United States Patent and Trademark Office regularly holds events targeted all the various stakeholders it serves -- inventors, startups, big companies, attorneys, trademark owners, etc. The events are all listed on the USPTO website,...