I love me some Newton Running. I’ve worn through many of their shoes and have had some great experiences with their customer service. As a triathlete, I can’t recommend Newton enough. As a trademark lawyer, I feel just as strongly…
I am pleased to have been asked to give a presentation on technical writing, patent drafting, and patent prosecution at the University of Advancing Technology in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday, July 12, 2012. I have made the presentation slides available…
Following the airing of an American gut-check in Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, Slate published a list of American number ones. Patenting was on that list – the USPTO is the busiest patent office in the world. From WIPO stats, in…
When a trademark, patent, copyright, or other right is the subject of a nonexclusive license, we often think about what sort of restrictions the property right owner should place on the licensee. However, there may be very good reasons for…
Here are the slides from my presentation at the Art Institute of Phoenix on May 29, 2012.
Note: This blog has always been about informing the non-lawyer about legal issues ranging from very basic (see yesterday’s post) to more complex. Sometimes, though, I find myself wondering about things in a more than merely practical way. So in…
Titles of patent applications can be puzzling. Some titles are simple, some complicated, some precise, others vague. The most important consideration is that a title be descriptive of the invention. There once was a segment of practitioners that would purposefully…
I have been invited by the Art Institute of Phoenix to give a presentation on Tuesday the 29th regarding the intersection of intellectual property and the arts. Many of the students at the school study fashion, so the talk will…
John Welch questions whether you would have appealed the recent rejection of Gila River’s application for AIRIA. Local Arizona tribe and gaming enterprise Gila River has a night club named Airia, but unfortunately, there is an Area nightclub in LA…
When the Trademark Office receives a new application, one of the first things it does is conduct a search for similar marks. The Trademark Examiner often searches for identical mark and homonyms in all goods and services classifications and for similar…