Joe Flaherty of Wired discusses if you can sue Kickstarter for IP Infringement.
When Formlabs raised $2,945,885 on Kickstarter for its high resolution 3-D printer in October 2012, neither company was expecting a lawsuit. Still, 3D Systems, one of the biggest names in 3-D printing, sued both companies, accusing them of patent infringement.
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By Matthew Bultman Law360 (June 7, 2019) — Congress appears determined to rewrite the law on patent eligibility. The Senate intellectual property subcommittee held two hearings this past week to discuss patentable subject matter, with a third scheduled for Tuesday. The hearings follow a series of closed-door meetings with industry groups and the unveiling of… Continue Reading
Mark Nowotarski shows how to use an Allowance Cloud™ to determine if an examiner is “negotiable” or “not negotiable”. Presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Patent Practitioners, July 20, 2018. The meeting was hosted at the USPTO’s Alexandria offices. Continue Reading
Now that your interest is piqued, let me clarify that if you’re new to the world of patents, an international patent does not exist. Patents must be filed on a country-by-country basis. However, there is an international patent application (PCT), and filing with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that allows you 30 months to… Continue Reading
If you have a provisional patent application pending on your invention, you have one year to assess the production / distribution / marketing costs versus the potential profitability of your idea, before filing a nonprovisional patent application. If that sounds like a pretty big to-do list to complete in a year, it definitely is. Holding… Continue Reading
If you read the previous article in the series, “Are You Ready To Talk To a Patent Agent?”, you know that before you can apply for a provisional patent, you need to do a comprehensive search of the U.S. Patent Office and other U.S. and/or international databases. That is something I do for my clients,… Continue Reading
Perhaps you have an idea for a new product simmering in the back of your mind. You’ve done a few Google searches, but haven’t found anything similar. This makes you confident that you have stumbled upon the NEXT BIG THING. Every day I talk to inventors who start their consultation with me by saying “I… Continue Reading
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