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...
Episode 24 of the "Law & Business" Podcast features Wil Jacques, the patent agent of Verna Law, P.C. We discuss the patent application in three thoughts. After filing the patent application, there is an office action (rejection from the United States Patent and...
In Episode 23 of the "Law & Business" podcast, Verna Law's own patent agent, Wil Jacques, speaks with Anthony about the three items that make a patentable invention. If you have any questions about your inventions or patents, please contact us at Verna Law, P.C....
Have You Received a Letter from Higbee & Associates, PicRights, David Oppenheimer, KodakOne, Pixsy, Photoclaim, or...
It's a fun Super Bowl weekend! So this video blog talks about trademarks for the Super Bowl, the NFL, and teams....
The Patent and Trademark Office of the United States refused to register a Lizzo trademark application for "100% That...