8 Aug 2014
On August 6, 2014, the Court of Appeal for the State of California in Santa Ana certified for publication its earlier opinion affirming the ruling of judge Steven Perk of Orange County Superior Court. Reblledo v. Tilly’s Inc., G048624, Aug. 6, 2014. The court held that express terms in an employment arbitration agreement excluding “matters...
6 Jun 2014
Generally, business owners who own and operate a business in California as a sole proprietorship or general partnership, may be considering establishing a more formal business entity, such as a limited liability company (LLC), corporation, or some other entity. Such owners initially ask themselves where, i.e. in which state should I create this legal entity? ...
25 Feb 2014
At the tail end of 2013, Amazon (AMZN) obtained issuance of an interesting patent, claiming a system and method of anticipatory shipping, i.e. shipping one or more items in your general direction before you even purchase said items. The patent, entitled “Method and system for anticipatory package shipping,” can be read here. Of my own...
4 Nov 2013
Last week, Canadian company Wi-Lan Inc. (WILN) lost a $248 million patent infringement suit against alleged infringer Apple Inc. (AAPL). On October 23, a Texas jury ruled that Apple did not infringe Wi-Lan’s U.S. Patent RE37,802 entitled “Multicode Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum,” and also determined that independent claims 1 and dependent claim 10 of the...
25 Oct 2013
The value of this program for the small inventor with an eye on the budget is tremendous. The program is best explained by an example. First, I will explain the patent application filing costs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) without this program.* Take small inventor Mark, who qualifies as a “micro-entity.” ...
22 Jul 2013
Las Vegas was one of the major American cities to be hit hardest by the global recession of 2008. People aren’t in a hurry to gamble away what little money they have in a depression, and this substantially affected Las Vegas tourism for the past couple of years. However, it seems that the famous city...
2 Jul 2013
The America Invents Act (AIA) has made filing a patent for many people much less expensive. Before the AIA went into effect on 16 September 2011, there were only two ways to file a patent: either as a normal entity or a small entity. In a nutshell, if you qualified for the small entity status...
2 Jul 2013
Recently a global investment management and services business known as BNY Mellon obtained a patent for a new management system that it calls Margin DIRECT. Rather than a product or technology, Margin DIRECT appears to be an idea or system that allowed BNY Mellon to enable the secure management of collateral between counterparties by providing...