In IP strategy, any isolated IP position of interest to a competitor is likely to be a vulnerable position. There are many ways to get around it including, but not limited...
Do you have an invention ready in hand but are not able to file a patent? How will you protect it from being disclosed if you intend to eventually file a...
Early in the movie Jaws, the town mayor berated Chief Brody for wanting to tell people about a possible shark attack off the beach. He said, “You yell barracuda, everybody says,...
You cannot expect anyone to sell against their own vested interests with enthusiasm. Any person who makes a living solving problems has a vested interest in the continued existence of those...
Bloomberg published a nice piece just the other day on common phrases that are trademarked. Here are a few: “It’s gonna be awesome” (The Barbarian Group) “We should talk” (Bank of...
I have often compared patents to castles when discussing high stakes invalidation exercises. Some are inherently stronger than others, but given enough resources, none of them are invulnerable. Castles, like patents,...
Ok, I get it that lobbying can be an important part of an overall strategy and so hats off to those who have created some fog around a seemingly broken patent...
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker Swift...
Eddy Ventose’s ‘Medical Patent Law – The Challenges of Medical Treatment’ explores the medical treatment exclusion to patentability; when and why it came into being; how it has developed in the...
If you look at past issues of IAM from the last 6 months you will see on average one article per month dealing with the topic of reputation management. And for...
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