Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
I wrote last year about the legal wrangling between Delaware North (DNC), which held the concessions at Yosemite National Park until the end of February 2016, and the National Parks…
One of the things we patent attorneys learn is that in pretty much any area of human endeavor where there’s money to be made, someone will be profiting, and more…
Passover is nearly upon us. At the traditional Seder, the Jews commemorate the Exodus from Egypt and recount, inter alia, the plagues that the Bible records being visited upon the…
While everyone else was focused on election results, yesterday the ILPTO announced via its email list that next month, in conjunction with WIPO, it will be sponsoring "Roving Seminars" in…
While visiting a friend and fellow lawyer recently in her DC office, her firm's senior partner stopped in to discuss an amicus brief they were preparing for filing before the…
Here's a story from the good side of the ILPTO: I recently filed an application and received a filing receipt containing a typographical error. It was clear the error originated…
In Israeli slang there’s the person who is a “rosh gadol” versus the person who is a “rosh katan”, literally “big head” versus “small head”. A “rosh gadol” is someone…
Judges are people, including the ones called “justices”. This fact wasn’t lost on the rabbis of Mishnaic and Talmudic period when they laid the groundwork for Jewish law as we…
The Israel IP community was left in a state of shock yesterday when it was announced that the victims of an apparent double murder in a home in the Jerusalem…
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.