With a government shutdown in effect as of midnight on January 20th, you may be concerned about how that will impact your upcoming or pending applications, and your existing patents and trademark registrations. For the time being, there is nothing to worry about. The United..
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Trademark applicants should be aware of an ongoing scam involving notices sent by private companies. These companies commonly have names that resemble official government agencies, and notices appear to be correspondence from the United States Patent and Trademark Office..
Innovators are attempting to determine what to do with their European filing strategies with Brexit becoming more of a reality each day. As laid out in my first post on the subject, the availability of the European Patent Convention (EPC) post-Brexit will continue to make the..
Congressional Republicans voted Tuesday to repeal FCC rules preventing internet service providers (ISPs) from selling your browsing history to third parties. Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate passed the same legislation, which leaves the final step—President Trump’s..
On June 26, 2015, 52% of the voting public in the United Kingdom told the European Union that they needed some distance in what is referred to as Brexit. The question facing many businesses is, how does this affect our intellectual property filing strategy going forward? The..
On February 1, 2017, Blackbird Technologies, a company based out of Boston; Chicago; and Concord, Massachusetts; filed suit against Los Gatos, California-based Netflix, Inc. in Delaware federal court for patent infringement. Blackbird, a company that does not create software,..
One question that arises for inventors is what will happen to their issued patent rights after their death. Determining who holds the rights to an issued patent after the inventor’s death depends on the actions taken, or not taken, during the inventor’s life.
It was the first design patent case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in more than 100 years and the trial of the century for anyone with a stake in the technology industry. A unanimous decision in favor of Samsung was heralded by the company as a victory for all..
Starting March 30th, the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) “.sucks” will be available for registration. The most commonly known gTLD’s are .com, .net, and .edu. The new .sucks gTLD is one of over a thousand new and forthcoming gTLD’s approved by the non-profit corporation,..