by Ian Burns | Jan 29, 2014 | Copyrights, Indexes, Intellectual Property Law, Patents, Trademarks, Uncategorized
Nevada Intellectual Property Litigation Index December 2013 The Nevada Intellectual Property Litigation Index dropped from 13 in November down to 5 in December. This is down 2 from December 2012. No patent cases, one trademark case and four copyright cases were filed...
by Ian Burns | Jan 28, 2014 | Copyrights, Indexes, Innovation, Intellectual Property Law, Nevada Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, Uncategorized
Nevada Intellectual Property Application Index 2014 The Nevada Intellectual Property Application Index 2014 (NIPAI™ or Index) is provided in the chart above. As you can see, trademark applications rose 4% in 2013 from 4371 to 4543. This is good news for the State...
by Ian Burns | Jan 24, 2014 | Intellectual Property Law, Patents, Technology, Uncategorized
Bitcoin Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency that involves open source software. It was introduced in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Mysteriously, this name appears to be a pseudonym and the true identity of the developer or developers is not...
by Ian Burns | Jan 14, 2014 | Intellectual Property Law, Patent Attorneys, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
How to Read Patents In Part I of this article we discussed how to read the front page of a patent. In this Part II we will look at the drawings, specification and claims. Drawings Most utility patents include a number of drawings following the front page of the...
by Ian Burns | Jan 10, 2014 | Intellectual Property Law, Patent Attorneys, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, venture capital investors and others are often faced with important decisions related to patents: file a patent application for a new invention commercialize or use a product that may infringe another party’s patent invest in a...
by Ian Burns | Dec 12, 2013 | Intellectual Property Law, Nevada Business, Trademarks, Uncategorized
Marketing versus Trademark Law There is an epic battle being waged between the forces of marketing and the forces of trademark law. Believe it or not, marketing departments and trademark attorneys engage in hand-to-hand combat every day. Marketers At the core of the...
