What does it mean to license an invention? Licensing an invention is akin to renting it out to someone else, allowing them the right to use and sell the product while you retain ownership. This arrangement enables inventors to earn passive income without having to manufacture, market, or distribute the product themselves. Why might an […]
Anoop Gopakumar and his group at MaxVal provide patent litigation alerts every day and today Anoop provided me with some interesting data on patent filings over the past year. 3963
The Buffalo Law Journal asked me to write a guest column in their recent edition which featured a Special Report on Legal Technology/Social Media. Here is the article: Getting a
In 1971 a microbiologist, Ananda Chakrabarty, working in a research laboratory of General Electric, created a bacterium capable of breaking down hydrocarbon components of crude oil. The genetically-engineered micro-organism held
As a patent attorney in Erie County I often get asked, “how can I get my products on the shelf in Walmart?” Shelf space is like real estate and every
United States patent and trademark office made changes to the rules to allow inventors to pay a fee to cut the line and get their patents examined sooner. Following passage
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the USPTO granted an all-time high 244,430 United States utility patents in 2011. Asian companies hold eight of the top 10
“Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made” (emphasis added). The statement above is the final sentence of the federal statute dealing with conditions
As a Buffalo copyright attorney I meet many new authors. A childhood friend of mine recently published a book of songs he wrote and I asked him to share some
Even though a jury ruled that the software that runs the famous Facebook site infringed on the patent of Leader Technologies, Facebook still won the case. The reply appeal brief
