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 23, 2014 | Indexes, Nevada Intellectual Property, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Nevada Patent Index December 2013 The number of Nevada patent applications published in December declined 14.7% to 157. The number of Nevada patents granted in December increased 37% to 259. Definitions Nevada patent applications are applications that have been filed...
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 23, 2013 | Indexes, Nevada Intellectual Property, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Nevada Patent Index November 2013 The number of Nevada patent applications published in November declined 7% to 184. The number of Nevada patents granted in November declined 15% to 189. Nevada patent applications are applications that list either an inventor,...
