This article provides a brief review of a new intellectual property enforcement plan released by an official of the United States government. The article also points to a disturbing trend of overenforcement of intellectual property rights and...
You have an API for your platform. You need to share it with integration partners to provide a more powerful solution for your customers. Share smart. Know what you are giving up and don't rely on trade secret law to protect your work, get a...
If you are in a trademark infringement lawsuit, can your opponent in that lawsuit file motions to discover details of settlement agreements around that trademark which you made with third parties? This article points to a recent Federal Circuit...
This article addresses what your recourse is should you miss the deadline for filing a U.S. design patent application (such as, for example, if a foreign design patent application is granted and accelerates the timeline for required filing of an...
This article takes issue with an article by the U.S. Small Business Administration ("SBA") called Follow These Steps to Starting a Business. Although the SBA's piece did provide many useful suggestions, the critique of it put forth by this...
Yee Wah Chin explores the possibility of bringing three common defenses to patent infringment claims as affirmative claims. The ability to do so is useful if, for example, a business owner is paying royalties to a patent holder for a patent...
This article by Yee Wah Chin analyzes patents on "self-replicating technologies." The self-replicating technology most referenced in this article is seed for planting crops--because each plant will produce more seeds carrying the patented...
Clifford Hyra helps inventors understand how they could be subject to patent infringement suits by explaining the difference between direct and indirect patent infringement. Direct infringement is somewhat obvious--your invention has all the...
Clifford Hyra explains that an inventor can be liable for patent infringement damages even if the inventor did not copy a patented device. This, of course, leads to the question Mr. Hyra answers in this article: how can I (a prospective...
Clifford Hyra uses this blog entry to respond to a meme which dismissed the value of intellectual property protection. According to Mr. Hyra, protecting intellectual property (via copyrights, patents, and trademarks) is especially important for...