The Internet has been a boon for trademark litigators. Using Google, the United States Patent and Trademark Office website and using various other third-party sites, company owners, executives and legal counsel can easily search and find other companies using marks similar to those they call their own. And once they find those dirty rotten trademark […]
Attorneys, in general, are a pretty competitive bunch. Most of us can be qualified as type A personalities (or at minimum, A-). A lot of successful business people fall into this category as well.
While this drive to win (or achieve something that is perceived as winning), most likely is responsible for getting the attorney or […]
Most of our Blog posts to date have not been self serving but the foregoing is a question we hear regularly and I can’t think of a better forum to address this question. Truth be told, picking a good patent lawyer and intellectual property law firm can be a very difficult task and is not […]
How many small businesses and individual inventors are ready to commercialize their inventions immediately after their patent application is filed? The answer is, not many. Quite often, such folks need to obtain more capital, develop a viable business plan, etc. They may have achieved the status of “Patent Pending”, but still do not know whether […]
On Wednesday, September 14th 2011 from 10am-12pm on KHOW (630 on the AM dial), I will be appearing on the Tom Martino show to discuss with him changes in the patent laws as a result of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act that will be signed into law any day now.
Please tune in if you have […]
The Colorado Supreme Court recently made implementation of certain intellectual property policies and protections a bit easier for companies with staff, who, in the past might have taken their employers’ intellectual property and used it to compete with them.
Over the years Leyendecker & Lemire has worked with a number of established businesses […]
Is it necessary for an inventor to obtain patent protection outside the United States? For US inventors trying to commercialize their inventions domestically on their own, the answer might well be “No”. However, for at least some inventors, very real strategic advantages may be realized by pursuing more global patent protection. This blog article is […]
This is a question I hear quite a bit. And it is an important one. After all, pursuing and obtaining a patent on your invention can cost well over ten thousand dollars by the time it is all said and done. You need to know what the expenditure is getting you.
Unfortunately, it is not a […]
In my last blog pot, I suggested you can use commercial success of your invention as evidence to help overcome rejection of patent claims by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Here is a little more on that process.
Many patent claims are rejected for failing the “nonobvious” requirement for patentability of an invention. These […]
The wait for a patent application can be a lengthy one. In fact, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) often takes between18 to 36 months from the filing date and the beginning of examination. With this in mind, I suggest inventors take that time to work on promoting their inventions. An invention’s commercial viability […]
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