by Ian Burns | Jan 23, 2014 | Indexes, Nevada Intellectual Property, Trademarks, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Nevada Trademark Index December 2013 The number of Nevada trademark applications filed in December increased 7.2% to 343. This is a 19.1% increase from December 2012. The number of Nevada trademarks that were registered in December increased 24.3% to 213. This is a...
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,...
by Ian Burns | Dec 22, 2013 | Indexes, Nevada Intellectual Property, Trademarks, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Nevada Trademark Index November 2013 The number of Nevada trademark applications filed in November declined 24.4% to 320. This is a 7.5% drop from November last year. The number of Nevada trademarks that were registered in November declined 27.9% to 160. This is a...
by Firm | Nov 28, 2013 | Innovation, Invention, Trademarks, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
On this Thanksgiving, we thank you for: not being happy with the status quo, the “good enough” or the “way it has always been”. seeing problems and inconveniences as sources of inspiration. daring to think differently. taking rejections better...
