Kim Manwaring is a 
Phoenix neurosurgeon who invented a number of medical devices in his garage-turned-laboratory. He was profiled in the Arizona Republic this weekend, and I thought it was a great story of the and hard work and creative mind required in starting a tech company. Read the story here.
I’m going to start providing updates on patent lawsuits filed in Arizona. Because there are so few of them, this should be a fairly manageable task. Last week, Tucson, Arizona Precision Shooting Equipment filed this complaint against Extreme Technologies, Inc….
The Trademark Office’s prohibition against the registration of disparaging trademarks was struck down as unconstitutional yesterday. Many have questioned for a long time how a statute could legitimately refuse to register some marks because of their moral quality. Nevertheless, for…
UPDATE: APRIL 28: The USPTO has updated its program which changes some of the information below regarding dates. Read more here. The Patent Office is allowing certain filing and fee deadlines to be extended due to the coronavirus pandemic in…
Steve O’Donnell, over at 3C Patent Law, has a nice, quick description of how a trademark owner can lose its rights through dilution. I’ve excerpted some of it here, but read the whole post for a better explanation: Consider this…
Applications of open-source theories of cooperation and development are popping up all over the place. In veiled product R&D, Coca Cola now offers a self-serve soda fountain – the Freestyle – where users can mix hundreds of different flavors to…
UPDATE: APRIL 28: The USPTO has updated its program which changes some of the information below regarding dates during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here. The US Patent and Trademark Office has made extensions available to filing, response, and fee…