Interview with Fashion Lawyer Ashlee Froese
I am a Buffalo attorney who focuses on intellectual property law and I rarely get an opportunity to discuss fashion branding with other intellectual property attorneys. However recently I needed to find a Canadian attorney to help me file a trademark assignment for one of my clients in Canada, and I enlisted the help of […]
Patent Reform Act of 2011…Finally Passed Into Law?
Is patent reform really going to happen in June 2011? All indications are that the ongoing patent reform legislation–that has been bantered about for nearly 10 years and presented to lawmakers in five Congressional cycles–is going to be passed this month by the House of Representatives. The US Senate passed its version of patent reform, […]
What is a patent?
WHAT A PATENT IS The answer to the question “What is a patent?’ may vary greatly, depending on the person answering the question and that person’s association with patents or the patent system. There are three basic characteristics commonly attributed to patents: The contractual characteristic. In viewing the patent as a contract, the focus is […]
2011 USPTO National Trademark Expo
The 2011 National Trademark Expo will be held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia on Friday, October 14th, and Saturday, October 15th. The free two-day event is intended to educate the public about the importance of trademarks in the global marketplace. Exhibitors are invited to showcase their trademarks […]
Buffalo Citybration 2011
As a patent attorney in Buffalo, New York I often run into inventors who are trying to invent something new. Recently I ran into a Buffalo ambassador who has reinvented something very old. Marti Gorman Founder at Buffalo By Choice, CEO at Buffalo Heritage Unlimited and Organizer at Citybration. At the turn-of-the-century, Buffalo was the […]
The Invention of Everything Else
The Invention of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt LoTempio Law Blog Book ReviewAbout the book The Invention of Everything Else brings us back to the early 1940’s, when Nikola Tesla was living out his final years on this planet in room 3327 in the Hotel New Yorker. Tesla was arguably one of the greatest inventors of […]
Interview with Owner of Lambert & Lambert
Inventors often come to my office looking for help to not only protect their intellectual property by filing a patent application, but to get help to sell their idea to a big company. I often ask inventors that come to me why do invention submission companies charge you if your idea is so good? Why […]
Interview with Inventor Joe Iannello
Inventor Joe Iannello came up with an idea of how to easily clean the underside of a lawnmower and he developed a new product called the Spray–n-Mow. He designed it, he received United States Patent 7,628,003(PDF) for it, he got it manufactured and now he is marketing his own product and selling it. It wasn’t […]
God Bless Rick Martin of the French Connection
one third of the French connection passed away today. Rick Martin was one of the greatest players in the Buffalo Sabres franchise history. I pray that God will bless his soul because God has blessed all Sabres fans by letting him play hockey for the Buffalo Sabres. Just a short time ago Martin welcomed the […]
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Esther S. Takeuchi
As a patent attorney here in Buffalo, New York I was very happy to learn that Esther Takeuchi a University at Buffalo professor was among the 2011 inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. So I contacted her and asked her a few questions which she graciously answered (see below). The induction comes from […]