Sales techniques or marketing themes are a newer category of trademark law’s trade dress laws. These have been recognized as …
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Design patent or trade dress?
Deciding Between Design Patent and Trade Dress Design patents have a 14 year lifespan under patent law. Trade dress is …
Patent Fee Changes – Timing can save you Money
If you qualify as a microentity, many people are advising that inventors may consider filing a provisional application before March …
Is business polluting R and D?
The Irish Times Science editor Dick Ahlstrom believes that the world may never see another scientific genius like Galeo, Einstein …
Stolen inventions: how to protect your invention from the Big Guy
Stolen inventions: how to protect your invention from the Big Guy There are always stories where the Big Box retailers …
Inventions needed in the medical device world
David Shaywitz, MD, writing for The Health Care Blog, expresses concern over what he sees as a major issue in …
Shareholder derivative suits increasingly prevalent
Since 2000, members of corporate Boards of Directors are increasingly being sued in shareholder derivative suits for claims related to …
New Year’s Resolution for your patent strategy: 5 steps to an effective defense for prior art rejections
March 2013 is just around the corner, and with it come the new patent laws initiated by the approval of …
Trade Dress Series, Part 5: Ineffective trade dress claims
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the different methods for seeking protection on product designs, namely, trade dress, …
Trade Dress Series, Part 4: Successful claims
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the different methods for seeking protection on product designs, namely, trade dress, …