What is a Patent Troll?
This is an interesting and creative explanation of what a Patent Troll is, and why Patent Trolls must be stopped. We hope your enjoy it!
This is an interesting and creative explanation of what a Patent Troll is, and why Patent Trolls must be stopped. We hope your enjoy it!
This morning I went down to the studios of WBFO 88.7 radio station to record the next installment of the You & the Law radio series. This program is featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and will air on Friday, November 8 at 5:45 p.m. My interview host Mike Desmond met me at the radio […]
I just received information through tweets sent out over the @BlawgReview Twitter feed Ed, the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, has died. Ed was short for Editor. Dear Blawg Review Community, I am the son of Ed, writing today with a heavy heart to inform you of his passing after a courageous battle with […]
A federal jury in a patent-infringement trial, ruled Apple Inc. didn’t infringe Wi-Lan Inc patents. There were two patents at issue: no. RE37,802 that covers CDMA and HSPA data transmission, and no. 5,282,222 for a method for allowing a number of wireless transceivers to exchange information (data, voice or video) with each other. Wi-Lan Inc […]
It seems to me that a description of a characteristic of the wine that is commonly used to describe wine that is “ready to drink” should not be protectable by trademark registration. Even though the examiner in this case thought the Mark shouldn’t be registered the TTAB granted the trademark PRÊT À BOIRE to Amuse […]
I am looking forward to taking a ride to wine trail country in Geneva, New York to talk about trademarks. Buffalo trademark attorney Barbara Piazza and I are scheduled to present a complementary educational seminar on trademark law and how it relates to the wine industry. This seminar is an extension of our educational blog […]
The 2013 Legal Elite of Western New York will be featured in the Business First of Buffalo when it hits newsstands tomorrow, but was previewed today on the Business First of Buffalo homepage. Buffalo Law Journal and the Buffalo Business First announced today that “We (Business First of Buffalo) received a record number of nominations […]
About the Book The “Library of New York Civil Discovery Forms” by the New York Law Journal Press, is a useful, time-saving, and no-nonsense resource that any attorney would be wise to have in their office. The Book’s 14 Chapters explore areas of civil discovery including: Authorizations Subpoenas Discovery Demands and Responses Discovery Objections Depositions, […]
The USPTO announced on Friday that it has upgraded the Patent Full Text and Image Database to PDF-file formatted images instead of TIFF images. All I can say is that it’s about time. For as long as I can remember the United States Patent and Trademark Office webpage was archaic and very difficult to work […]
As many of you already know, many internet search engines utilize a search system which attempts to predict what you are searching for after you have only typed a few letters. For example, after typing –intelle– into a Google search, a myriad of potential search options appear including intellectual property, intellectual ventures, and intellect. A […]