Interview With PTIS Co-founder Brian Wagner
One of the things I enjoy about law blogging is my opportunity to interview thought leaders in the intellectual property arena. Recently I had the opportunity to be introduced to Brian Wagner who is a co-founder of a company called “Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions“(PTIS). PTIS is a group of “Global Management and Packaging Consultants.” […]
Patent Reform: House Passes America Invents Act
On June 23, 2011, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted 304-117 to pass H.R. 1249, a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), also known as the America Invents Act, to overhaul to U.S. patent law so as to encourage innovation, job creation and economic growth. “Today’s vote is a victory for […]
Leonardo da Vinci Inventions
I have always been amazed at the complex inventions that have come about hundreds of years ago. Leonardo Da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance genius who memorialized many of his of inventions in thousands of pages of notes and drawings. Although it is said that he intended to […]
PATENTS & INVENTIONS SERIES Part 1
During a career of nearly 40 years as a patent examiner, a patent agent and a teacher of patent law, I’ve been asked countless questions about patents and inventions. Now that I’m semi-retired, I find I’m still getting questions about patents and inventions – from friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and people I meet socially. It happened […]
Interview with Fashion Lawyer Ashlee Froese
I am a Buffalo attorney who focuses on intellectual property law and I rarely get an opportunity to discuss fashion branding with other intellectual property attorneys. However recently I needed to find a Canadian attorney to help me file a trademark assignment for one of my clients in Canada, and I enlisted the help of […]
Patent Reform Act of 2011…Finally Passed Into Law?
Is patent reform really going to happen in June 2011? All indications are that the ongoing patent reform legislation–that has been bantered about for nearly 10 years and presented to lawmakers in five Congressional cycles–is going to be passed this month by the House of Representatives. The US Senate passed its version of patent reform, […]
What is a patent?
WHAT A PATENT IS The answer to the question “What is a patent?’ may vary greatly, depending on the person answering the question and that person’s association with patents or the patent system. There are three basic characteristics commonly attributed to patents: The contractual characteristic. In viewing the patent as a contract, the focus is […]
2011 USPTO National Trademark Expo
The 2011 National Trademark Expo will be held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia on Friday, October 14th, and Saturday, October 15th. The free two-day event is intended to educate the public about the importance of trademarks in the global marketplace. Exhibitors are invited to showcase their trademarks […]
Buffalo Citybration 2011
As a patent attorney in Buffalo, New York I often run into inventors who are trying to invent something new. Recently I ran into a Buffalo ambassador who has reinvented something very old. Marti Gorman Founder at Buffalo By Choice, CEO at Buffalo Heritage Unlimited and Organizer at Citybration. At the turn-of-the-century, Buffalo was the […]
The Invention of Everything Else
The Invention of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt LoTempio Law Blog Book ReviewAbout the book The Invention of Everything Else brings us back to the early 1940’s, when Nikola Tesla was living out his final years on this planet in room 3327 in the Hotel New Yorker. Tesla was arguably one of the greatest inventors of […]
