Limiting Exposure: How to Decrease Litigation Risk
Simply stated, IP litigation is high stakes and stressful for everyone involved. There are a lot of reasons why avoiding IP litigation is the best course of action for you and your intellectual property portfolio, and choosing to take an infringement case to court is a costly decision that shouldn’t be made lightly. Win or […]
Lessons From the Purple One: Protecting IP like Prince
It’s been one year since the death of music legend Prince, and the battle over his posthumous catalog is just beginning. A six-song EP set to be released on April 21, the anniversary of his death, was blocked by a lawsuit filed by his estate.
Zarley Law InnovationIowa Sponsorship
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Is My Idea Too Broad? Patent Applications and Your Invention
The perfect patent application lies in a sweet spot of breadth. For your patent to offer optimum protection, it must be narrow enough to gain the USPTO’s approval but also broad enough that it’s difficult for someone to design around your patent and become a competitor.
Congress Opts-in to Allowing ISPs to Sell Consumer Data
Congressional Republicans voted Tuesday to repeal FCC rules preventing internet service providers (ISPs) from selling your browsing history to third parties. Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate passed the same legislation, which leaves the final step”President Trump’s signing of the bill. The Trump Administration has already indicated that the President will sign off on the partisan […]
Life After Brexit Part Two: Implications on the Unified Patent Court Agreement
Innovators are attempting to determine what to do with their European filing strategies with Brexit becoming more of a reality each day. As laid out in my first post on the subject, the availability of the European Patent Convention (EPC) post-Brexit will continue to make the normal filing methods through the European Patent Office (EPO) […]
