In Episode 51 of the "Law & Business" Podcast, we take a look at a company that makes a plush product that is also a curtain tie-back. It is a very useful product, but one that also features the ability to be very fanciful. So the group takes a look at how the...
Verna Law, P.C. currently has cases in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, the District of New Jersey, the Central District of California, and the Western District of Washington. The Trademark...
Anthony Verna and Wil Jacques visited Toy Fair 2020. This is Anthony's eleventh Toy Fair and Wil Jacques' fifth Toy Fair. They opened the phone and recorded their thoughts for intellectual property trends they saw from the smaller businesses. Anthony Verna at Toy Fair...
I'm Anthony Verna, managing partner of Verna Law. But chances are you already knew that! Hey, it's the middle of February and what does everyone say about the middle of February? It's my favorite time of year. Like, nobody says that about the middle of February, but...
Here at Verna Law, one of our goals of 2020 is to keep growing our patent practice, especially with our patent agent, Wil Jacques. Recently we've had a couple phone calls with potential clients who have business method or algorithmic patent ideas. In the last four or...
Back in 2014, a company called Surrey Nanosystems received a patent for a color that is so black and absorbs 94% of all light. Let me take a step back there. You don't receive a patent on the color. You receive a patent on the process for making such a new advancement...
Intellectual property and business plans. You know what a good business plan is, right? A business plan is a description of how you want to build your company. In the business plan, you want to explain what customers you want to target via which marketing channels,...
In Episode 37 of the "Law & Business" podcast, Anthony sits down with John Eastwood, partner of Eiger Law in Taipei, Taiwan. Anthony and John discuss "worldwide patents," a common misunderstanding that does lead to the scamming of those who have patents in a...
Diane Kennedy, CPA, joins Anthony Verna for episode 33 of the Law & Business podcast. Diane has written a dozen or so books and had the fortune of hitting the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business West best seller lists with some of them. That’s even...
How to patent an idea – or, more appropriately, how to take your idea and move it into a state in which you can...
This is another video blog to go with our Patent Law FAQ - we hope you continue to enjoy our video blogs. Here is a...
At Verna Law, P.C., we are doing a series of video blogs that coincide with our FAQs. This video answers the question...