by Ian Burns | Jun 29, 2013 | Education, Innovation, Invention, Patents, Uncategorized
Do you live in an innovative city? The Brookings Institution recently released a study on metropolitan patent data. Among other things, the data includes the number of patents granted and the number of patents granted per job as an average over the last five years....
by Ian Burns | Jun 28, 2013 | Domain Names, Trademarks, Uncategorized
New Generic Top-Level Domains Have you heard of the trademark clearinghouse? If you own a trademark, you will need to know about this. Over the next couple of years many new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs ), such as .cool, .food, .entertainment, and .toys, are...
by Ian Burns | Jun 24, 2013 | Intellectual Property Law, Patent License, Patent Litigation, Patents, Uncategorized
Patent License Microsoft has signed a patent license agreement with Taiwan’s Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer. The patents licensed relate to technology used in Android and Chrome software. Foxconn manufactures devices that run the Android and Chrome...
by Ian Burns | Jun 24, 2013 | General, Innovation, Technology, Uncategorized
Flying Pizza Domino’s Pizza is developing a flying pizza delivery drone. The “DomiCopter” prototype has already taken a test flight that lasted a full ten minutes and was able to efficiently deliver pizza to a nearby customer. Videos of this test flight are...
by Ian Burns | Jun 11, 2013 | 3D Printing, Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, Patents, Technology, Trademarks, Uncategorized
3D printing in fashion is causing turmoil. 3D printers are well known in certain industries. They have been used to make quick and inexpensive prototypes for many years. In general the process involves making a digital model of an item using computer design software....
