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28Mar 2013

The Rush to Meet the March 16th Patent Deadline

March 28, 2013 Patent
gavel of justice

According to a chart released by the U.S. PTO, about 26,500 provisional and non-provisional patent applications were filed on March 15, up from the about 2,500 applications that are filed on a typical day.  The reason: inventors and their patent lawyers (including us) were racing to beat the March 16 deadline. As we have said […]

28Feb 2013

Terms of Service Didn’t Read

February 28, 2013 Internet Law
Designs for patents

If you thought reading privacy policies was a was a waste of time you were right. The Carnegie Mellon Institute calculated that it would take 10 minutes to read the privacy policies of the 75 most popular websites at the standard reading rate of 250 words per minute. The medium length of privacy policies from […]

28Feb 2013

The Berne Convention: Mother of All Copyright Treaties

February 28, 2013 Copyright
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You may have never heard of the Berne Convention but it’s a very import international treaty governing copyrights.  Here’s a brief overview.  The Berne Convention was first adopted in Berne, Switzerland in 1886 and requires its signatory countries to safeguard the copyrights of a work created in other signatory countries as it would protect those […]

31Jan 2013

But I Already Paid for That!

January 31, 2013 Copyright, Intellectual Property
Internet and Intellectual Property

The United States Federal Government does a lot with tax dollars. One of those things is that it funds research in many areas that lead to published papers in basic science, medicine, engineering, and many more fields. Another is that it runs the Federal Court system, which publishes orders, rules, opinions, and the like. What […]

31Jan 2013

PTO Patent Fees for the ‘Micro Entity’

January 31, 2013 Patent
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As an individual or small business inventor, do you feel really, really small?  The good news: after March 16, 2013 you may qualify as a ‘micro entity’ and be entitled to patent fee discounts from the PTO of 75% off large entity rates.  The bad news: large and small entity rates are going up at […]

31Jan 2013

Check Those Employee Handbooks!

January 31, 2013 Internet Law
Designs for patents

There have been a spate of reporting about the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent decisions about the use of social media by employees.  You may think that an employer should have absolute control over its employees’ right to talk about the employer or its customers on the Internet, but that is not the case.  […]

31Dec 2012

Privacy in the Age of Apps

December 31, 2012 Internet Law
Internet and Intellectual Property

If you use or develop online software or smartphone “apps” then you need to know about CalOPPA.  No, that’s not some form of steam-driven musical device from an old-time carousel. It’s the California Online Privacy Protection Act, and it has very real consequences for any company that does business online. This month, the State of California […]

31Dec 2012

Notice or Not: ©

December 31, 2012 Copyright
gavel of justice

In late November, David Pogue of the New York Times wrote about a hoaxer who plastered Facebook sites with an unsolicited message that stated: In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, crafts, professional photos and videos, etc. (as […]

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