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26May 2011

Who Owns Your Invention?

May 26, 2011 Robert Yarbrough Patent

James Joyce (no, not the author) learned the hard way that selecting your form of business and assigning ownership are crucial steps in promoting an invention. Mr. Joyce invented a new computer firewall and granted an exclusive license in the patent to TechGuard Security LLC, which was owned by Mr. Joyce and his wife. Mr. […]

26May 2011

New Opportunity For Patent Applicants.

May 26, 2011 Robert Yarbrough Patent

Patent examiners necessarily have a limited time to spend on each patent application and may miss the point of an invention or of the prior art. An interview between the applicant and the examiner, either by phone or in person, can be a useful way to educate the examiner. Under the current system, the only […]

30Apr 2011

Guest Editorial – Congress Needs Your Input About the Proposed Patent Law

April 30, 2011 Lawrence Husick Patent

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 […]

30Apr 2011

Trade Secret Theft is a Crime

April 30, 2011 Robert Yarbrough Lipton Weinberger & Husick Blog

As Mike Yu learned, industrial espionage can earn you hard time. Mr. Yu is a Chinese national with permanent residency status in the U.S. He worked as an engineer for Ford Motor Company for ten years. Before departing Ford in 2007, Mr. Yu purloined computer files containing several thousand of Ford’s sensitive documents, including design […]

30Apr 2011

Ask Dr. Copyright: The Death of a Copyright Troll?

April 30, 2011 Lawrence Husick Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright, Litigation

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 […]

05Apr 2011

Charlie Sheen Parks his Nonsense with the Patent and Trademark Office

April 5, 2011 Adam Garson Trademark

Yes, folks, there may be method (a little bit) to his madness. Charlie Sheen has filed trademark applications for 24 trademarks. All your favorite sayings: “violent torpedo of truth,” “that’s what winners do,” “park your nonsense,” “you’ve been warned,” “I’m not bi–polar, I’m bi–winning,” “defeat is not an option,” “duh winning,” and the list goes […]

31Mar 2011

“America Invents Act” Clears U.S. Senate, On to the House

March 31, 2011 Robert Yarbrough Patent

Sweeping changes to the U.S. patent system are imminent. By a vote of 95 to 5 the Senate passed the “America Invents Act” on March 8, 2011. If the Act become law, which is likely, it will be profoundly important to inventors, patent owners, and defendants in patent litigation. The House of Representatives is considering […]

31Mar 2011

In Pennsylvania, Attorney-Client Privilege is Now a Two-Way Street

March 31, 2011 Lawrence Husick Patent

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 […]

31Mar 2011

Cold Milk for Chocolate Milk – Part II

March 31, 2011 Laurence Weinberger Litigation, Trademark

As our readers may remember, we previously discussed the battle royal shaping up over an iPhone application (app) that mimics milk in an iPhone “glass.” While seemingly amusing, the app business is big business with Apple reporting sales of 2.4 billion dollars in apps in 2009. Further, the issue of what constitutes the “look and […]

28Feb 2011

Is Coca-Cola’s Trade Secret Recipe Still a Trade Secret?

February 28, 2011 Robert Yarbrough Lipton Weinberger & Husick Blog

The recipe for Coca-Cola® is one of the most valuable trade secrets in the world. As a trade secret, it is not protected by patent, copyright, trademark or any other government-granted monopoly. The recipe is a trade secret only because The Coca-Cola Company keeps the information secret. According to the radio show ‘This American Life,’ […]

Blog – Adam Garson Law

Who Owns Your Invention?

New Opportunity For Patent Applicants.

Guest Editorial – Congress Needs Your Input About the Proposed Patent Law

Trade Secret Theft is a Crime

Ask Dr. Copyright: The Death of a Copyright Troll?

Charlie Sheen Parks his Nonsense with the Patent and Trademark Office

“America Invents Act” Clears U.S. Senate, On to the House

In Pennsylvania, Attorney-Client Privilege is Now a Two-Way Street

Cold Milk for Chocolate Milk – Part II

Is Coca-Cola’s Trade Secret Recipe Still a Trade Secret?

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