Patent Wednesday: Explaining the Inexplicable

Patent Wednesday: Explaining the Inexplicable

One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the field of patent law is its airtight attention to technological detail.  A patent owner enjoys the exclusive rights to make, use, sell, and offer for sale the underlying invention covered by the patent.  Every word and every image represents painstaking effort taken by an inventor.  Thin is Read more about Patent Wednesday: Explaining the Inexplicable[…]

Trademark bullying

Trademark bullying

The PTO recently expressed a concern with “trademark bullying” – the overzealous enforcement of trademark registrations to harass and intimidate another business beyond what the law might reasonably be interpreted to allow.  In point of fact, isn’t the PTO the “arms merchant” to the bully?  The PTO shouldn’t be surprised or discourage “trademark bullying” when Read more about Trademark bullying[…]

What’s wrong with the world

What’s wrong with the world

This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a Read more about What’s wrong with the world[…]

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