Jan 4, 2022 | Intellectual Property law, trademark
Actively Manage Your Intellectual Property Portfolio By Gary S. Shuster The primary kinds of intellectual property (IP) are: Utility patents (these protect a device, a function, an artificial molecule, etc.) Design patents (these protect an ornamental design)...
Jul 18, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
The Restoring American Leadership in Innovation Act of 2018 was recently introduced by a bipartisan group of members of the House. The Act reverses a lot of the damage that has been done to the US patent system in recent years as a result of restrictions on the value,...
Jul 17, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
It was 2006. RIM/Blackberry just settled a patent infringement case for $612.5 million. US patent law had been largely stable for decades. The Chinese government was not all in on IP. The US government ran the world’s best patent system, and “Designed in...
Dec 6, 2016 | Intellectual Property law, News
Download the PDF here 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....