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Blackbird V. Netflix: Is This Patent Troll for Reel?

On February 1, 2017, Blackbird Technologies, a company based out of Boston; Chicago; and Concord, Massachusetts; filed suit against Los Gatos, California-based Netflix, Inc. in ...

The Book on Patenting: Is My Idea Novel?

To meet the USPTO's standard of novelty during the patent application process, your invention has to be different than all others that have come before ...

Life After Brexit Part 1: Current EPO Filings and Community Trademarks

On June 26, 2015, 52% of the voting public in the United Kingdom told the European Union that they needed some distance in what is ...

Experience and Expertise: Should I Use General Practice to Protect My IP? Or an IP Law Firm?

There's no question. You know you need to get a patent, trademark, or copyright for your latest work. But what most people don't know can ...

What Life Technologies v. Promega Means for Biotech Patent Law

On February 22, 2017, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decided in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. (14-1538) that supplying a single component of a ...

What the BPCIA Means for Intellectual Property Rights in 2017

In 2017, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) may be affected by a partial or complete repeal, or a revision, of the Affordable ...

Self Service: Can I file a Trademark Myself?

Can I file a trademark myself? Sure, you could. But just because you can doesn't mean you should. If you're in the business of inventing ...

The Core of Samsung v. Apple

It was the first design patent case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in more than 100 years and the trial of ...

CRISPR and Patent Interference

The intellectual property rights surrounding the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has caused more commotion in the legal world than one might expect from a scientific ...

USPTO AIR Makes Setting Up an Examiner’s Interview Easier

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced the USPTO Automated Interview Request (AIR) Form or USPTO AIR last week.  The new online form allows applicants to simply ...

Spotlight: Brandon Adams Lands the Cover of Inventors Digest

We first met with Brandon Adams in 2012, during the preparation and filing of his first patent and trademark applications.  This young man’s exceptional ambition to innovate has ...

Patent Rights and Death

One question that arises for inventors is what will happen to their issued patent rights after their death.  Determining who holds the rights to an issued ...

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