What You Should Do If You Receive a Settlement Demand Letter for Alleged Copyright Infringement by your Website……… First – …
Category: Patent
Post-Office Action Program Extended at USPTO
The United States Patent Office announced that the After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 (AFCP2.0), which had been scheduled to expire …
Divorces and Patents – the problem of the Ex-Spouse
Many companies have standard patent assignment agreements that assign employee inventions to the employer. But what if the inventor is …
CASE STUDY: Unintentional Trademark Infringement
A New York City entrepreneur loves New York, fine coffee and his coffee shop Everyman Espresso. He also loves tattoos, …
Can recipes be patented?
You’ve heard it before: “We make the best!” Be it barbecue sauce or brownies, it seems like everyone claims to …
Ideas For TV Series or Movie
Ideas for a television series or a movie are rather difficult to protect under conventional trade secret law. The law …
Software Protection: Many Choices to Protect Your Product or Service
Software and mobile device applications are a booming business. If you discover an unmet need, or a niche that has …
Are Headphones a Fashion Accessory?
Beats manufactures distinctive headphone products in which it claims trade dress and design patent protection. The protection afforded under patent …
Spanx v. Yummie Tummie (a/k/a Sara Blakely v. Heather Thomson Schindler)
Yummie Tummie owns 7 design patents on its popular body shapewear. Yummie Tummie accused Spanx of patent infringement after seeing …
A Case Study in Using a Utility Patent to Invalidate a Design Patent on the Same Article of Manufacture: Telebrands Corp v. Del Laboratories, Inc.
A New York federal district court case highlights the importance of having a unified patent strategy, and coordination between the …