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Patent EFS

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PATENTS

  1. China and Your Client’s Intellectual Property
  2. His Expert Opinion: Patents and Physics Make Great Partners (from American Physical Society News)
  3. In my place: Personal jurisdiction and venue in US patent litigation
  4. A New Regime for Process Patents in the U.S.
  5. Coping with the Berne Convention
  6. Damages in Patent Suits (And Table of Contents)
  7. Design Patents: Protecting Against Knockoffs
  8. Documentation for Inventors
  9. Does the Attorney-client Privilege Extend to Patent Attorneys?
  10. First to File V. First to Invent: a Bone of Contention in the International Harmonization of U.S. Patent Law (And Table of Contents)
  11. Genetic Engineering and the Patent Office - Article 1
  12. Genetic Engineering and the Patent Office - Article 2
  13. Inequitable Conduct Before the Patent and Trademark Office
  14. "Means" Clauses in Patent Claims
  15. Medical Patents in the United States (And Table of Contents)
  16. Noninfringing Sales of Infringing Medical Device - Lilly v. Medtronics
  17. Obtaining Patents for Manufactured Products of Naturally Occurring Substances
  18. Patent Cooperation Treaty Creates New Horizons
  19. Should I Get My Design Patented?
  20. Questions re the Effect of Federal Circuit Decisions on Patent Litigation
  21. What Is a Patent?
  22. In re Durden Comes Full Circle: the Effect of the Biotechnology Process Patent Act and Recent Federal Circuit Cases on Biotechnology Process Patents

Trademarks 

  1. Cost Conscious Procedures for Challenging a Competitor's Trademark Registration or Patent
  2. How Distinctive Is It? . . . the Inherently Distinctive Test as Applied to Trademarks, Service Marks and Product Designs
  3. Introduction to Trademarks
  4. Licensing a Trademark? Beware of the Franchise Laws
  5. McDonald's Corp. v. Arche Technologies, Inc.: Trademark Dilution Without Tarnishment
  6. Parody No Automatic Defense to Trademark Infringement
  7. Product Liability of Trademark Licensors
  8. Product Makers Can Protect Their Trade Dress
  9. Selection and Protection of Trademarks (And Table of Contents)
  10. State and Federal Trademark Law
  11. The "Prior Use" Defense in Trademark Infringement Loses its Vitality
  12. Trade Dress and Unfair Competition: Who Has the Rule Book?
  13. Trademark Coverage for Promotional Materials
  14. Trademark Families
  15. Trademark Infringement Liability Gets Real Personal
  16. Trademark Law Revision Act: Important Changes in Federal Trademark Law
  17. Trademarks and Merchandising Rights
  18. Trademarks in the United States
  19. Use of Personal Name as Trademark Can Be Rewarding, Yet Risky 

Copyrights

  1. Copyright Protection for Computer Software - What Exactly Is Protected?
  2. Copyright Registrations: Easy to Get but Not Always Upheld
  3. Illegal Immigrants 

General

  1. Customs Valuation, Transfer Pricing, and Accountants
  2. Do You Own the Software You Paid for?
  3. False Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Applications a Predicate Act under Rico?
  4. Intellectual Property Checklist for Ventures in the New Millenium
  5. Litigators, Choose Your Sanctions
  6. Looking Through the "Rear Window"
  7. Minimizing Exposure: Corporate Formalities and Insurance Coverage
  8. Obligations and Rights of an Individual - Competing with an Ex-employer
  9. Sue First or Negotiate? (Shoot First and Ask Questions Later?)
  10. The Relationship Between Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets

Last Updated June 08, 2007