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30Aug 2012

Google Patent Search has New Features and New Powers

August 30, 2012 Adam Garson Patent

Do you want to find out whether your better mousetrap is patentable? For inventors and patent attorneys, Google Patent Search is a cheap (as in free) and easy way to perform a light-weight screening search. Since 2006, Google Patent Search has allowed use of familiar word searching skills to search a database of U.S. patents […]

30Aug 2012

From Brain Drain to Brain Flow

August 30, 2012 Lawrence Husick Intellectual Property

At one time, leaders in developing countries and in international organizations decried the “brain drain” that led the best and brightest in what we used to call the “third world” to emigrate to the West to take advantage of superior educational and employment opportunities. The United States was the destination of choice, both for these […]

30Aug 2012

Internet Trends: Linking is Not Copying (In the 7th Circuit, Anyway)

August 30, 2012 Adam Garson Internet Law

Here’s another Internet copyright conundrum. Assume you have a social networking website where you let users post links or bookmarks to their favorite videos from all over the Internet. To view the videos, a visitor clicks on a link and the video is streamed into a video frame much like you see on YouTube. Many […]

31Jul 2012

Ask Dr. Copyright (Summer Reading Edition)

July 31, 2012 Lawrence Husick Ask Dr. Copyright, Intellectual Property

Dear Doc: I’m going to the beach and I am tired of re-reading old spy novels. Know any exciting books about intellectual property law? Signed, Eccentric Beachbum Dear EB: Absolutely! The “Doc” just loves a good suspenseful mystery, and in the Doc’s opinion, there is none better than William Rosen’s The Most Powerful Idea in […]

31Jul 2012

Patentable Subject Matter – The Issue That Will Not Die

July 31, 2012 Adam Garson Litigation, Patent

Whether an invention is the sort that can be patented is determined by §101 of the patent statute. That section states: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of […]

31Jul 2012

A Book By Any Other Title May not be Registrable…

July 31, 2012 Adam Garson Intellectual Property, Trademark

From time to time, we receive inquiries from authors about registering book titles as trademarks. Sounds like a good idea but can it be done? The short answer is “no,” trademark law does not permit registration of a work’s title. But, as with many legal rules, there are exceptions. The complete title of a work […]

29Jun 2012

2012 Special 301 Report Outlines Intellectual Property Rights — Gains and Losses

June 29, 2012 Adam Garson Intellectual Property

In April 2012, the The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its “2012 Special 301 Report” (Report) in which it reviews the state of intellectual property rights protection and enforcement in trading partners around the world. It’s an interesting document, which underscores the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) to world economy, […]

29Jun 2012

An Obvious Solution to a Non-Obvious Problem

June 29, 2012 Adam Garson Patent

Inventors and patent attorneys know that creating any invention has two parts: (a) identifying a problem; and (b), solving that problem. To protect the invention by patent, the invention must be ‘non-obvious.’ That is, if two or more prior art patents or other references when taken together teach all of the elements of a patent […]

29Jun 2012

You Have the Right to Remain Silent…

June 29, 2012 Adam Garson Lipton Weinberger & Husick Blog

The 1966 landmark Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona gave us that famous TV cop phrase, “You have the right to remain silent…” This warning, called the Miranda Warning after the name of the criminal defendant in the case, is so common that many citizens can almost repeat it by heart. The holding of […]

31May 2012

Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc: I have heard several of my friends say that university copyright policies are complicated and are a “bear” to deal with. What, exactly, does that mean? Your friend, Yogi Dear Yogi: Many colleges and universities have so-called “intellectual property policies” that they say apply to student-created work. Many of these policies say that […]

Blog – Adam Garson Law

Google Patent Search has New Features and New Powers

From Brain Drain to Brain Flow

Internet Trends: Linking is Not Copying (In the 7th Circuit, Anyway)

Ask Dr. Copyright (Summer Reading Edition)

Patentable Subject Matter – The Issue That Will Not Die

A Book By Any Other Title May not be Registrable…

2012 Special 301 Report Outlines Intellectual Property Rights — Gains and Losses

An Obvious Solution to a Non-Obvious Problem

You Have the Right to Remain Silent…

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