http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress A Leyendecker & Lemire Blog Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:23:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the Tom Martino show the week before last, there was a call from a person inquiring about patent searches.  Tom expounded on the caller's inquirey and asked me how a person that has a new idea should search to see if their idea is already in the public domain ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=122 We do a significant amount of Trademark work at the Firm. And over the years, one thing we have noticed is that a significant percentage of clients want to name their businesses and products with names that are either (i) very descriptive of what they do or (ii) comprised wholly ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=121 OK, that is a bit of an overstatement.  We are, however, going to be making an in studio appearance on the Tom Martino Troubleshooter show on March 5, 2009 between 9am and 12pm.  Tom will be taking calls from inventors, entreprenuers and anyone else that has intellectual property questions.   So mark ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=120 When most people come to us with the desire to obtain a patent, they are interested in obtaining a utility patent.  Utility patents allow an inventor to protect the functional advantages of a particular machine, article of manufacture, composition or process.  In this sense utility patents are very powerful tools ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=119 And I am throwing down the gauntlet and challenging each and every attorney at L&L to write TWO posts a month minimum. This will result in at least eight insightful and meaningful posts a month. OK, maybe not eight "insightful and meaningful posts" BUT I can at least promise mine will be ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=118 In the last year or so millions of people have been laid off from their jobs. Additional millions are worried or concerned that they may be next.  It has crossed the minds of many if not most of these people that perhaps they should start their own business to gain ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=117 Originally Posted 1/15/08  For those like me who before today were unaware of this principle derived from the teachings of a 14th-century Fraciscan friar, Occam's Razor goes something like this: All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best As recently outlined in the Patently-O blog, this solution was recently applied by ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=116 Originally Posted 11/7/07  In the past, we have seen owners of federally registered trademarks receiving notices purporting to be from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or another entity with an officially sounding name. These notices typically offer a service which the notice states is urgent and/or required for ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=115 Originally Posted  10/11/07 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently ruled an inventor's patents were uneforceable: Nilssen v. Osram Sylvania. Why? Because the inventor wrote, applied, and dealt with the Patent Trademark Office (PTO) on an individual, pro se, basis. Now, not everyone who prosecutes their own ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=114 Originally Posted 9/18/07 As recently stated in the online blog Lexology, American Airlines recently sued Google for trademark misappropriation. See American Airlines, Inc. v. Google, Inc., No. 4-070V-487-A (N.D. Texas, Aug. 16, 2007). In its complaint, Amercian alleges that Google's policy of allowing other companies to display paid links to their ... http://coloradoiplaw.com/wordpress/?p=113