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Protect Your Uniqueness As It Defines Your Value
The right of publicity is your right to control the commercial use of your name, image, voice, likeness and other distinctive personal attributes. Yes, your personality, including your gestures and phrases are protected.
Intellectual Property and COVID-19 Protections for Entrepreneurs
Thought for Today: Intellectual property protection is much like protecting yourself from catching COVID-19. [Statistic] About 10% of the world’s population has been infected with COVID-19. As I sit here in my bed feeling quite sick, my mind turns to statistics. I may now be part of that statistic. But wait a minute: my COVID-19 […]
How to Confidently Decide Between a Provisional and Non-Provisional Patent Application for Your Invention
As an inventor, your patent filing strategy determines whether to file a provisional or non-provisional patent application.
COVID-19 Implications for Mergers and Acquisitions in 2020
With each passing day, the COVID-19 pandemic challenges businesses around the world. Companies are faced with attempting to carry on their business in an uncertain and ever-changing environment. Mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions are just one of many impacted business arenas. To be successful, transacting parties must identify and mitigate novel risks and […]
The Importance of Documenting Your Valuable Invention Disclosures
I love my job, in fact, working with inventors to protect their amazing ideas is so rewarding. When inventors come to me for patent protection, documentation (or lack of it) makes a huge difference. This blog post addresses the use and value of invention disclosures for documentation purposes. Invention Disclosures How to memorialize and […]
The Power of a Making Your Website Accessible in Today’s Digital Age
Why Making Your Website Accessible Matters Website accessibility in its simplest terms is the capability for everyone, regardless of their ability, to access your website and content. Disabilities come in many shapes and forms. The CDC defines a disability as: “… any condition of the body or mind … that makes it more difficult for […]
Sorry Inventor: You Cannot Get a Worldwide Patent for Your Invention
(Co-authored with Pranita Dharmadhikari) E-commerce has had remarkable growth in recent years. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses are moving online in unprecedented numbers. Selling online makes it so easy to sell internationally. Selling internationally necessitates a worldwide patent. Welcome to 2020. Protecting innovative products therefore has become more important than ever. Many […]
The USPTO has Introduced COVID-19 Programs to Aid in this Pandemic
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) considers the Coronavirus outbreak an “extraordinary situation.” As a result, the USPTO modified both patent and trademark regulations. “The USPTO stands shoulder-to-shoulder with inventors and entrepreneurs and is working on a variety of measures to incentivize, protect, and disseminate COVID-19 related innovation.”Andrei Iancu Kudos to the USPTO! […]
Can A Corporation be Named as a Patent Inventor?
A few weeks ago, I published a post about Artificial Intelligence Patent Inventors. This article reported that three patent offices declined patent inventorship to an AI inventor. Recently, a client asked me whether a corporation can be a patent inventor. Great question. Just like AI, corporations cannot be patent inventors. Patent Inventors A patent inventor […]
