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 22, 2017, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decided in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. (14-1538) that supplying a single component of a multicomponent invention for manufacture abroad is not a violation of the Patent Code.
To meet the USPTO’s standard of novelty during the patent application process, your invention has to be different than all others that have come before it. If your invention has been publicly disclosed or sold anywhere in the world, it isn’t patentable. But don’t get..
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.
In 2017, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) may be affected by a partial or complete repeal, or a revision, of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The BPCIA is a set of laws enacted in March 2010 that became Title VII of the ACA. The Trump administration has..
Can I file a trademark myself? Sure, you could. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should. If you’re in the business of inventing and creating, it’s tempting to cut corners to save a buck or two. But you’ve spent countless hours with getting your brand, business, or both..
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..
The intellectual property rights surrounding the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has caused more commotion in the legal world than one might expect from a scientific patent. The technology is being hailed as the scientific discovery of the century, but with a patent interference..
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,..