Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of a work that qualifies under the Copyright Act for copyright protection. Unauthorized use means that the permission of the copyright owner was not granted for the use. Copyright Infringement is the taking of rights...
In the "Law & Business" podcast, Episode 28, Raj Goel of Brainlink International talks about Operational Maturity in business. What is Operational Maturity and what are the levels of Operational Maturity (OML)? The difference between the OMLs of businesses...
What is Prior Art? We discuss the need to do a patent search to find prior art. What is prior art that the patent search is supposed to find? Prior art does not need to exist physically or be commercially available. It is enough that someone, somewhere, sometime...
The special guest in Episode 27 of the "Law & Business" podcast is John Eastwood, a partner at Eiger Law in Taipei. John and Anthony discuss the issues that many American businesses have when they start production of their products in the Greater China Market. As...
In the Law & Business Podcast Episode 26, Australian barrister Ed Heerey helps to compare U.S. and Australian Rights of Privacy and Publicity law and issues. This is one of the most fun episodes of the podcast. Anthony visits Ed Heerey, an Australian...
This is our first "Law & Business" podcast episode recorded during the International Bar Association annual convention. This year it was in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. With John Rubinstein formerly of Rubinstein Phillips Lewis Smith Ltd. of London,...
As a part of the standard operating procedure here at Verna Law, P.C., we have a special form for clients and potential clients when we have a meeting over a new invention and the ability for the inventor to receive a utility patent from the United States Patent and...
Will the Plaintiff Buy my Trademark? It's a situation that many of my clients find themselves in. In filing a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the applicant turns into a defendant in the Trademark Trial and Appeal...
Monitor Your Trademarks One responsibility trademark owners neglect often is to monitor trademarks. This is probably due to a lack of understanding about the trademark application and registration process. During (and, hopefully, before) the trademark...
Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of a work that qualifies under the Copyright Act for copyright...
In the "Law & Business" podcast, Episode 28, Raj Goel of Brainlink International talks about Operational Maturity...
What is Prior Art? We discuss the need to do a patent search to find prior art. What is prior art that the patent...