Sep 12, 2016 | Intellectual Property law, News
Inventors are commonly the target of scams, so much so that the USPTO has issued specific guidance, invention promotion companies are subject to mandatory disclosure requirements, and Congress has passed a law prohibiting “Improper and deceptive invention...
Aug 31, 2016 | Intellectual Property law, News
As an inventor with well over 150 issued U.S. Patents and a Harvard Law degree, I have a unique perspective on the inventor/lawyer relationship. I understand the frustration that patent lawyers feel when the inventor doesn’t understand that patent lawyers...
Jun 20, 2016 | Intellectual Property law, News
By Gary S. Shuster The Supreme Court handed down a decision this morning in Cuozzo v. Lee. Two questions were before the court: (1) Is the decision to institute “inter-parties review” (“IPR”) appealable? (2) Is the Patent Office allowed...
May 28, 2016 | Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property law, Labor & Employment
Download a PDF of the article here By Darryl J. Horowitt As the owner of a business that may be a party to a lawsuit, you need to know about the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI), also known as e-discovery. Why? Because the requirements to preserve...
Oct 19, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
I just received my 150th issued US patent. That kind of landmark tends to trigger a look back. My first patent was number 6,756,879 and my 150th was patent number 9,166,974 — meaning 2.41 million patents issued between my first and my 150th. To get a sense of...
Oct 9, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
Wikileaks has released the intellectual property chapter of the current draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. This agreement addresses how member nations deal with trademarks, copyrights, utility patents, plant patents, drug and medical patents and drug...