Friday, April 11, 2025

“Continuations” and US Patent Law

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  When crafting a patent strategy in the United States, one of the most powerful tools available to inventors and businesses is the continua...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Actively manage your intellectual property portfolio

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The primary kinds of intellectual property (IP) are: 1. Utility patents (these protect a device, a function, an artificial molecule, etc.) 2...
Monday, July 1, 2019

SCOTUS: Trademark Licensees Retain Their Rights To Use Debtors’ Trademarks Despite Rejection Of The License

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            On May 20, 2019, the Supreme Court handed down an 8 -1 opinion in MissionProduct Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC , holding ...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Q&A: How to use trademark to protect against cybersquatting

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Cybersquatting is when a third party registers a domain name that really should be yours.  For example, if my company's name is "Fr...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

If a patent is expired, can it be used freely by everybody?

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It is important to remember that a patent does not give anybody the right to do what the patent covers. For example, if I had a patent on a...

U.S. Supreme Court holds that a copyright claimant may not file infringement suit until the Copyright Office registers a copyright

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Although an author automatically gains copyright protection for her work immediately upon the work’s creation, an author may not file an in...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

SCOTUS Finds An Inventor's Sale of Product to Third Party can Qualify as Prior Art 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)

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In Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA , the Court affirmed a Federal Circuit decision invalidating the patent for Helsinn = s...