Dear Doc: A friend of mine (if ya know what I mean) uses peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software. She downloads cool things from the Internet, but then sorta-kinda-almost instantly erases them from her computer. Is this okay? Signed, MovieFan Dear Fan: Ahem…If I were your friend, I would stop doing that stuff. NOW! You see, […]
All posts by: Lawrence Husick
America Invents Top 10 List
September 30, 2011
Patent
What should you know about the Patent Reform Act? 1. Rights to a patent will be determined by who filed first, not who first conceived the invention. To preserve patent rights inventors should consider filing one or more provisional patent applications very early. 2. Marking products with an expired patent is no […]
BROKEN! (PAT.PEND.)
August 26, 2011
Patent
The United States’ patent system is broken. It should be fixed. Doing so will improve America’s competitive position in the world. Bad patents should not be granted. Patents should be examined more quickly. Inventors should be encouraged to invent new technologies and get them to market. It would be difficult to find anyone to disagree […]
Treb Lipton (1942-2011)
July 28, 2011
Lipton Weinberger & Husick Blog
Treb and Lawrence Our founding partner, Robert “Treb” Lipton died this month. Of course, for our firm, and for his family, he had departed some time ago in one of the cruelest jokes that disease plays on us: the Alzheimer’s Disease that robbed him of his memories. We will miss him, but we have missed […]
Ask Dr. Copyright….
July 28, 2011
Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright
Dear Doc: We have a small business, and recently, one of our key employees quit unexpectedly. Of course, we quickly secured things, but a customer just called to say that she has been contacted by the fellow, and that his company’s brochure is quite similar to ours, offering the same services and products. We did […]
Dear Doc, What ever happened to that “Copyright Troll” that was trying to sue anyone who quoted the Las Vegas newspaper? Jus’ Wondrin’ Dear Jus: Funny you should ask. You will recall that Righthaven LLC (the “troll” you talked about) is a company that brought hundreds of law suits for copyright infringement against web sites, […]
Protecting Your Trademark from XXX
May 26, 2011
Internet Law, Trademark
To bring some protection from unintended exposure to pornographic websites, the international body that administers the Internet Domain Name system has approved a new domain: .xxx (dot triple-x). New to this domain will be a way to block the triple-x registration of certain domains, without actually having to acquire them, as is now the norm […]
David E. Boundy, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel Intellectual Property at a well-known financial services firm, in Boston MA, has asked patent practitioners around the country to post information about the patent bill now in its final stages of consideration by the U.S. Congress. The patent lawyers at Lipton, Weinberger & Husick have regularly devoted […]
Dear Dr. C, I heard that a copyright troll died recently…what’s the scoop? Sincerely, Morbidly Interested Dear Morbidly, Righthaven LLC is a company that has brought hundreds of law suits for copyright infringement against web sites, bloggers, and mainstream media companies that have used content from the Las Vegas Review Journal. Quotations as small as […]
Under the law in Pennsylvania, unlike many other states, the attorney-client privilege used to be limited to only those things that the client communicated to the attorney. Thus, while a client might describe his invention to the attorney, creating a privileged communication, the things that the attorney conveyed, such as the results of a patent […]