Should Inventors File A Patent Or Keep Their Innovation As A Trade Secret? In determining whether to patent or protect as a trade secret, the key is to assess if the innovation can be easily reverse engineered. Patents provide a public document for protection but come with a 20-year monopoly. Trade secrets, like the Coca-Cola […]
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Inventors often come to my office looking for help to not only protect their intellectual property by filing a patent application, but to get help to sell their idea to
Inventor Joe Iannello came up with an idea of how to easily clean the underside of a lawnmower and he developed a new product called the Spray–n-Mow. He designed it,
