The term “intellectual property” refers to intangible property such as art, music, literature, movies, inventions, designs, slogans and logos. Under IP law, you have the exclusive right to use or reproduce your work. In some cases, you may wish to allow others to use it. In order to maintain control over and protect your intellectual Read more about The Importance of IP for Startups: Licensing Agreements[…]
As your company grows, pitching the business becomes progressively important. Seeking investors, new clients, or even new personnel, an owner must frequently reveal details about the business to others. Idea theft is an ongoing worry for many of these owners who see themselves as having a gain by being at the head of the market. Read more about Three Steps Businesses Can Take to Protect Their Ideas[…]
When working in a competitive industry, it becomes essential to protect a business’ confidential information. If Coca-Cola® let its famously secret beverage formula slip to the public years ago, would it have had enjoyed the same success in the marketplace? Maybe not. Intellectual property law allows a variety of different means for protecting information. For Read more about Friday Grab Bag: To Catch a Trade Secrets Thief[…]
Often in intellectual property disputes, a case can boil down to the simple issue of whether the ingenuity of one company crosses a line already established by another – whether the creative, diligent actions leading up to a fascinating new invention tread on the invaluable rights secured by another party. How far is too far? Read more about Friday Grab Bag: Aereo® on the Go?[…]
Anyone out there play Candy Crush SagaTM? I do (I just finished Level 215, thank you very much), and I know a lot of other people that do too. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Candy Crush SagaTM is a puzzle game, originally released for Facebook, but now available for mobile phones and tablets. Read more about A saga, or an epic debacle? A trademark attorney’s perspective on the Candy Crush Saga trademark uproar[…]
A new bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature regarding contracts with employees relating to their inventions. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman David C. Russo and Assemblyman Craig J. Coughlin, is intended to protect employee common law rights to ownership and usage of employee inventions that are totally unrelated to the job functions Read more about Are your employee contracts up to par? New legislation regarding intellectual property rights pending in New Jersey.[…]
Our home state of New Jersey was front and center in the sports world this year for Super Bowl XLVIII. But, from an industrial standpoint, New Jersey is often viewed as a leader in one particular business: pharmaceuticals. On January 17, 2014, Judge Joel A. Pisano of the District of New Jersey sided with Warner Read more about Victory for the Patent Holder – Warner Chilcott v. Lupin and Amneal[…]
When the US Supreme Court elects to weigh in on matters of intellectual property, the legal landscape awaits their every word with bated breath. Two matters of the kind are currently before the Supreme Court: divided patent infringement liability and patentability of software. The adventure is just beginning. Divided Patent Infringement Liability: The Supreme Read more about IP News from the Supreme Court – December 2013[…]
If you own a patent, you know that you need to be aware of potential and actual infringers. After all, a patent grants an inventor the exclusive right to make, sell, and use an invention, and what good are those rights if someone else is doing just the same with an identical invention? Of course, Read more about How Invalidity can Trump Indirect Infringement: the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Commil v. Cisco[…]
If you own a patent, you know that you need to be aware of potential and actual infringers. After all, a patent grants an inventor the exclusive right to make, sell, and use an invention, and what good are those rights if someone else is doing just the same with an identical invention? Of course, Read more about How Invalidity can Trump Indirect Infringement: the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Commil v. Cisco[…]