A trademark application will be abandoned by the Trademark Office if a deadline passes without you taking certain action. This can happen, for instance, if the Trademark Office has issued you an Office Action that requires a response, and the…
There is a whole world of patent applications beyond the original nonprovisional patent application. There are provisional, plant, design, reissue, divisional, continuation, continued prosecution, and continuation-in-part applications. These last four applications are known as continuing applications, because they continue from…
The America Invents Act changed up a lot of the paperwork typically filed initially with an original patent application. One of the changes allowed “applicants,” or assignees, to directly file an application. Previously, an inventor would file the application, and…
Today, a basic primer on trademark infringement and an example of something that seems pretty clear. A registered trademark gives the owner the right to prevent anyone from using a mark in a way that is likely to cause confusion….
I just finished an interview with KFYI journalist George Lin. The interview is on the subject of the rise in patent filings in Arizona and the US. It should air sometime next week. I’ll post details when I know more.
A few weekends ago I competed at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside in California. Oceanside has some restaurants I’ve not seen anywhere else before, in the country or even in California. One of those was a place called Angelo’s, which served everything…
Inventors and attorneys rushed to file patent applications before March 16, 2013. That date marked an important change in patent law, with applications filed before being subject to the old patent law, and applications filed after being subject to the…
Today, as the last bit of the America Invents Act goes into effect, the Patent Office introduces a new fee structure. Some fees are going up, some fees are going down (Patently-O has a nice article comparing new fees to…
Information Disclosures Statements are used to notify the Patent Office of the art (inventions, publications, etc.) that may bear on the invention that the Applicant is trying to get patented. They should be used anytime a search is performed before…
I will be participating at Project Salute this weekend. If you know of a veteran that has had trouble navigating VA benefits, please encourage them to attend. The American Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division will be hosting Project Salute this…