This morning I saw a Dex commercial urging the viewer to “Dex it” when they needed to look something up. Dex it? Instead of Googling searching online for it? Well, first off, I have opted-out of receiving most telephone books,…
My invention has both functional and ornamental aspects – can I file for both utility and design patent protection? Absolutely. Both aspects of the invention can be protected. Some considerations (there will probably be others): Timing: Ensure that both applications…
Every once in a while, I get offers to buy domain names in my field – arizonacopyrightatttorney.com or arizonapatent.com, things like that. I have yet to buy one, but I am sure they aren’t cheap – several thousand dollars, perhaps….
Patent reform has been making its way through Congress. The Senate passed a bill, the House passed it in a slightly different form, and it is now going back to the Senate. If approved by that chamber and then approved…
The way a store or restaurant looks is often central to the success of business. It is often also an asset of the business that can be protected as trade dress. Restaurants and stores (successful ones, at least) tend to…
.XXX domain formats are due out soon. This means that you will begin to see (or not see) porn sites moving to the format www.SITENAME.xxx around the end of the year. This new domain is intended to isolate adult websites…
Douglas Robinson, IP editor over at Slowtwitch, writes an interesting piece about patent protection in tri bikes, a subject near and dear to my heart. Take a look at it here. I believe bike technology is one of the most…
Trademark searches can be informative tools. Yesterday, Bruno Tarabichi from Trademark Sentinel wrote about the effectiveness of a client-performed trademark search. He noted, quite rightly, that clients often choose to do their own search instead of having one professionally run….
Trade dress is the protectable dress, design, packaging, or look-and-feel of a product or service. Because trademark rights are all about use and signaling in the consumer’s mind the source of the product, nearly anything that functions as such a…
Ok, I am guilty of it. Last week, I complained that everyone and their mother was sticking “i” in front of a word and calling it a brand, but darn’d if I can’t help but do it too – and…