Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
There have been many videos of “protestors” on US college campuses in recent weeks that display how spoiled – and detached from reality – these students are. There was the…
Well, that seems to be the message from the Israel PTO, which earlier today sent out an email to its distribution list, informing us of this important fact, with a…
This could have been Gaza, or Ramallah, or Amman or Damascus or Beirut…but first you have to learn to love life rather than lust after death. Good things happen to…
Years ago, my friend and (now retired) colleague Ellen Shankman, a trademark attorney, drew my attention to a phenomenon in Israel regarding patent applications: lots of Israelis think that filing…
When Jews finish studying a tractate of Talmud, there's a prayer that is traditionally recited, which includes the following declaration: "For we arise early, and they arise early; we arise…
Those of us over a certain age remember cameras that used film: you loaded film in the camera, you clicked open the shutter, for a fraction of a second the…
"Do not cast me off in old age; when my strength fails, do not forsake me!" (Psalms 71:9) אַֽל־תַּ֭שְׁלִיכֵנִי לְעֵ֣ת זִקְנָ֑ה כִּכְל֥וֹת כֹּ֝חִ֗י אַֽל־תַּעַזְבֵֽנִי׃ One of my favorite albums…
Cannabis has become a become a big (legal) business in recent years. This weekend marked the death of Raphael Mechoulam at the age of 92. An emeritus professor at Hebrew…
I didn't see anything about this on the Israel PTO's web site, but from the Patents Journal that published on February 1, I see that Israel hit patent application no.…
Well, that didn't take long. On Friday I wrote about B&J's virtue-signaling (or is it peccancy-signaling?) statement on its website regarding Israel, noting that they still had Israel listed a…
I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.