Intellectual Property

There has been a lot of news lately about governments and individuals stealing intellectual property (IP) from U.S. companies and taking that IP outside the

Fifty years ago, the practice of patent law was a sleepy cloistered legal field. Patent attorneys were all nerds (engineers or scientists who had somehow

Trademark rights are acquired in the United States through (1) use of the trademark or (2) by filling a trademark application in the U.S. Patent

We are old enough to remember when television only came into your home through an antenna, and there were only a handful of TV broadcast

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” All patent attorneys know this curious statement, and that it was supposedly uttered in 1899 by Charles

Since its origin the use of the internet has been (until now) mostly an interaction between people. From initially exchanging documents between scientists, to email

Ten Years! It’s a long time. Ten years is the entire initial term for a trademark registration and half the life of a granted utility patent.