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How to Protect Valuable Intellectual Property despite California’s Policy against the Enforcement of Employee Covenants Not to Compete

19 Dec 2016

Our firm is frequently contacted by companies and small business owners who request that we prepare agreements for them that would prevent or limit their employees from engaging in competitive work following the end of the employment relationship. Specifically, what many businesses are looking for is to include a “covenant not to compete” or “non-compete...

"Write Once, Run Anywhere" – POS Patent Infringement Lawsuit Reversed on Appeal

10 Dec 2014

In this POS patent infringement lawsuit, CardSoft sued VeriFone and others asserting infringement of its software patents. Both companies are in the point of sale (POS) industry that consumers recognize as credit card readers, and also the industry that Apple is seeking to gain market share in with its new concept of Apple Pay. At...

Filing A Patent Application

11 Aug 2014

Filing a Utility Patent Application Generally, the government will grant you a utility patent when you can show that you have developed something new, useful, and non-obvious. The standard for showing something new is pretty straight forward- that is, that the exact idea has not been developed before. Thus, if you have a new device,...

On Crowdfunding Intellectual Property

3 Aug 2013

Wired, one of the preeminent technologically oriented online news sources, has a fascinating article arguing that we need a crowdfunding platform for patents. Writer Samuel Arbesman opens by citing two impressive statistics. One is that every year the citizens of the US spend $40 billion to support technological innovation and research (about two-thirds of this...

Here Comes the Ubuntu Smartphone….Maybe

26 Jul 2013

Open-source web developer, Ubuntu, has announced a Kickstarter type campaign to fund the development of a new open-source smartphone: the Edge. The project is ambitious, Ubuntu has asked for $32 million in order to develop 40,000 units (a contribution of $600 to the campaign on the first day or $830 on the following days guarantees...

Las Vegas, Now Focusing on Intellectual Property

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...

Will 3D Printing End Intellectual Property Rights?

22 Jul 2013

One of the most remarkable developments of the past few years has been 3D printing, a system that can literally print a solid object using only a design and some plastic polymers. The applications for such a device are seemingly endless. It can print cheap food for impoverished third world nations and solve world hunger!...

BNY Mellon Patents Management Process

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...

How the Supreme Court’s Gene Patent Ruling Affects Patent Law

21 Jun 2013

The past twenty-five years have seen amazing advancement in scientific understanding of the human body. From cloning to stem cells, major scientific breakthroughs have turned the body itself into a kind of technology to be manipulated and played with. But the crowning achievement of this new research into the human body is arguably the Human...

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