The EU Unitary Patent will soon come into effect. When it does, it will become a centralized system to obtain a single patent registration that covers many European countries. It is a new type of patent that will be available…
A European patent is a platform from which a person or business may be granted exclusive rights to an invention in multiple countries across Europe. The European Patent Office (EPO) examines and grants European patents. Importantly, the European patent is…
Every company has different types of assets. These may include tangible items, such as inventory and fixtures, or intangible assets and intellectual property, such as patents and trade secrets. One of the most valuable assets of any business is likely…
The Trademark Office just issued a warning this week about a new trademark scam. Trademark scams are nothing new; trademark owners have for years received mailings that appear to be from the Trademark Office but are from scam companies instead…
Kami writes this post – For many years, I oversaw an extensive holiday giving program for my former law firm which involved coordinating the purchase of gifts for hundreds of people in need. With the help of my colleagues, we…
Sometimes clients are confused about how to sign a trademark filing like a trademark application or response to a non-final or final office action. When we prepare a trademark application, we send it to the client for review and electronic…
The Patent Office is delaying the non-DOCX penalty fees it had said would go into effect at the beginning of 2023. As part of its “modernization” efforts, the Patent Office has been pushing patent attorneys, agents, and pro se filers…
When a trademark owner dies, there can be uncertainty in who owns the trademark or whether the trademark is even still valid and subsisting. There is always an owner of a trademark, usually a company but sometimes an individual. No…
Corporate attorney Kami Galvani writes today’s post about signing a contract that might be incorrect, might include provisions that are not applicable to your situation, or might have terms with which you cannot comply. The Dilemma I’ll pose a hypothetical…
In the past year, I have dealt with one issue more times than I have in the previous ten years of practice: correcting or changing the applicant name in a trademark application during prosecution. Apparently trademark applicants are mis-identifying themselves…