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How to Know When to Change Your Patent Lawyer

Patent Trademark Blog

What are the signs that you need a new patent lawyer? If the time is right to make a change, how do you go about finding the right patent attorney ? Need a new patent attorney? What are some excuses that do not justify changing your patent lawyer? The patent application process is inherently challenging.

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Design patent infringement: What is a substantially similar appearance?

Patent Trademark Blog

What is the design patent infringement test? The test for design patent infringement involves a visual comparison between the patented design and the accused product. What seems so hard about looking at two designs and determining whether appear substantially similar to an ordinary observer? In Lanard Toys, Ltd.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. With that basic structure, let’s review them and sort out some of the confusing aspects of each. We’ll get back to these statements later.).

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Which Types of IP (Intellectual Property) Protection Do Artists Need?

Art Law Journal

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Unfortunately, IP law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which types of IP (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work.

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Defining Boundaries: IP Law Addresses Exterritoriality, Lexicography & Human Touch

LexBlog IP

Eset, LLC, a Federal Circuit decision on which Eset is now seeking Supreme Court review; Finjan raises the question of whether a court must accept a patentee’s own expressly-defined claim terms when reviewing a patent. “Yes, the law is about words.,” One is the case of Abitron Austria GMBH v. Hetronic International Inc.,

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 13- May 19) 

SpicyIP

The Controller on working examples is surely going to interest patent lawyers. Remanding the matter back to the Patent Office, the Court clarified that a working example does not define the patent’s scope. This and much more in last week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Anything we are missing out on?