Sep 22, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
To download the PDF of “POOR MAN’S PATENT” AND “POOR MAN’S COPYRIGHT”: THE TOOTH FAIRIES OF THE IP WORLD, Click here There is a common misconception that an inventor or author can protect their intellectual property by mailing a copy of it to themselves. These are...
Jul 9, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
To download this article, click here In the recent case of Multi Time Machine, Inc. v. Amazon.com, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of online retailer Amazon.com (“Amazon”) in a trademark infringement action...
Jul 6, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
By Sherrie M. Flynn To download this article, click here Since my astute colleague, Gary Shuster, posted helpful terminology related to patent “speak,” I thought it might be helpful to have asimilar glossary of terms for trademark terminology. Although...
Jul 2, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
Professor Eric Goldman posts a timely reminder that online service providers (which for this purpose includes a person or entity that operates a web site where any third party content might be incorporated) need to make sure they have a current designated agent form...
Jul 1, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
The Supreme Court has had quite a patent law run over the first half of the decade, with major patent cases in 2011 (Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership), 2012 (Mayo v. Prometheus; Bowman v. Monsanto), 2013 (Assn. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad), 2014 (Alice...
Jun 30, 2015 | Intellectual Property law, News
Click here to download the article Patent law has a steep learning curve. For patent lawyers, this means reading a lot of federal court decisions and attending seminars. For inventors, this learning curve can impede our ability to get patent protection. By creating...
