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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
In a highly anticipated – and stunning – decision, the US Supreme Court today ruled not only that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was constitutionally prohibited from entertaining…
I don’t think any readers of this blog have been living in a cave for the last 25+ years, but if you have, one of the most popular comic strips…
There’s a piece today in the Washington Post about how, when viewed microscopically, a cat’s tongue is seen as a perfectly-designed untangling hairbrush, which makes sense given how much time…
One of the things I like about the USPTO’s EFS is that for most types of filings, a practitioner doesn’t need a power of attorney in order to file a…
Several years ago, at the behest of Israel patent practitioners who were miffed that their lawyer colleagues receive a cute picture ID card every year from the bar association, the…
For last month or so, we've been receiving weekly emails inviting us to an IP conference to be held in Dubai. The organizers are billing it as the "Largest Intellectual Property…
Last year we wrote about the Clinton campaign's spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to abuse trademark law in order to silence a critic who sold t-shirts and mugs mocking that campaign's candidate. Now…
That's a famous line from Mel Brooks' "History of the World", ostensibly uttered by Louis XVI, but on the basis of recently-issued US 9,119,029, it would seem to true of Google…
The big news today in the business world is the announcement by Google that's it's doing a corporate restructuring and has set up a company called "Alphabet" that will be…
In the summer of 2012 we filed a non-provisional application at the USPTO. We included color drawings (actually, photographs). We also duly filed a petition for the USPTO to accept…
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.
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