Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
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…
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…
If the above title seems to be a non-sequitur, keep reading, because it’s not. There’s been a lot of writing in the IP world recently about a US federal district…
This is somewhat off-topic for this blog, but it touches on something of a sore point, namely the indentured servitude to which men’s football and basketball players at major US…
Last year I helped organize a panel for the AIPLA national meeting on the intersection between IP rights and free speech. One of the speakers was Paul Levy of Public…
I wrote some time ago about an offer I received to pay a fly-by-night outfit $1700 so that a client’s published PCT application could be included in a private database…
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.