I was able to catch a few minutes of the Patent Office’s 15th Annual Independent Inventors Conference web cast. The speaker was from the Kaufman Foundation, an organization dedicated to fostering and promoting entrepreneurship in the United States. If you are not familiar with these folks, their website is perhaps worth checking out. See
In general, the federal communications decency act has two provisions that provide very strong liability protections for service providers, to the extent that that protection was once thought to be invincible. However, recent cases have shown that service may be liable if they promise to take corrective action, but fail to follow through.
The first protection […]
Check out the first entry in our new video tutorial series concerning intellectual property. Please provide feedback so that we can make the series even better.
On the Tom Martino show the week before last, there was a call from a person inquiring about patent searches. Tom expounded on the caller’s inquirey and asked me how a person that has a new idea should search to see if their idea is already in the public domain or is currently patented. Given […]
We do a significant amount of Trademark work at the Firm. And over the years, one thing we have noticed is that a significant percentage of clients want to name their businesses and products with names that are either (i) very descriptive of what they do or (ii) comprised wholly of common words or phrases.
As […]
When most people come to us with the desire to obtain a patent, they are interested in obtaining a utility patent. Utility patents allow an inventor to protect the functional advantages of a particular machine, article of manufacture, composition or process. In this sense utility patents are […]
And I am throwing down the gauntlet and challenging each and every attorney at L&L to write TWO posts a month minimum. This will result in at least eight insightful and meaningful posts a month. OK, maybe not eight “insightful and meaningful posts” BUT I can at least promise mine will be worth reading!
In the last year or so millions of people have been laid off from their jobs. Additional millions are worried or concerned that they may be next. It has crossed the minds of many if not most of these people that perhaps they should start their own […]
Originally Posted 1/15/08
For those like me who before today were unaware of this principle derived from the teachings of a 14th-century Fraciscan friar, Occam’s Razor goes something like this:
All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best
As recently outlined in the Patently-O blog, this solution was recently applied by U.S. District Court Judge William […]
Originally Posted 11/7/07
In the past, we have seen owners of federally registered trademarks receiving notices purporting to be from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or another entity with an officially sounding name. These notices typically offer a service which the notice states is urgent and/or required for the mark to continue to […]
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