Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
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…
The Hebrew-language Makor Rishon newpaper reported on Friday that the search committee tasked with finding a new ILPTO Commissioner has settled on Asa Kling, a partner in one of Israel’s…
I hope you find this blog informative or even entertaining. If you’re a repeat reader, thanks for being a glutton for punishment…er, thanks for coming back. But for the sake…
A while back I posted on the Israel PTO and Monty Python. Now it’s the USPTO’s turn. MP fans are familiar with the “Cheese Shop” sketch, in which John…
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.