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Nintendo Company Ltd. Is one of the, if not the , biggest video game companies in the world. With a net income in 2024 of $3.9 billion...
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Justin T. Valentine
Aug 233 min read
Trade Secrets: The Secretive Fourth IP Asset
Throughout these blog posts, we’ve focused primarily on the major three avenues for protecting innovation: patents, copyrights, and...
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Justin T. Valentine
Jul 132 min read
Design Patent Infringement: The Ordinary Observer Test
Rather than protecting the functional aspects of an invention, design patents protect the ornamental aspects of the invention. Design...
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Justin T. Valentine
May 152 min read
Trademark Rights: Common Law vs Federal Registration
Trademarks are a valuable intellectual property for many businesses. Business owners are often faced early on with the decision whether...
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Justin T. Valentine
Apr 224 min read
Wading Through the Murky Waters of Patent Eligibility
In our previous post, we examined a broad overview of the patent process. In that post, we touched on the first step in the patent...
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Justin T. Valentine
Mar 195 min read
Patents 101
Few legal concepts are less well understood than those of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Often, people mistakenly use these terms...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Jun 25, 20193 min read
Trademark Enforcement in Google AdWords Search Results
By Trey Holloway It is difficult to overstate Google’s influence. Since it emerged victorious in the search engine wars of the early...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
May 31, 20192 min read
Patents – What Kind Of Rights Do They Provide?
By Steven R. Tollette Since March 16, 2013 when the American Invents Act became effective, the first inventor or inventors to file a...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Oct 3, 20183 min read
Mickey May Soon Lose His Copyright Protection, And Why That Might Be Okay
The duration for which a copyright is afforded protection has changed tremendously throughout the years. As the law currently stands, for...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Jul 11, 20182 min read
USPTO Updates Examination Procedures for Determining Patent Subject Matter Eligibility
On April 19, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a memorandum informing the Examining Corps of recent...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Jun 26, 20183 min read
USPTO Issues U.S. Patent No. 10,000,000
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently reached a monumental milestone, issuing U.S. Patent No. 10,000,000 on June 19th,...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
May 15, 20184 min read
An Overview of Third Party Pre-Issuance Submissions: Advantages and Disadvantages
What Are Third Party Pre-Issuance Submissions? Since the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted on September 16, 2011, there...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Oct 26, 20173 min read
Businesses and the DTSA: What Companies Need to Know about the 2016 Law
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) became the effective law on May 11, 2016. While trade secrets are often the less talked aspect of a...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Jun 22, 20173 min read
What does the Adoption of the Unitary Patent System Mean for U.S Inventors?
Despite numerous setbacks and delays - most recently a June 2017 decision by the German Constitutional Court that prevents Germany from...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Jun 1, 20172 min read
Supreme Court Reaffirms its Interpretation of the Patent Venue Statute
On Monday May 22, 2017, the United States Supreme Court decided TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC. Justice Thomas wrote...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Mar 30, 20173 min read
The Big Five Unveil Trademark Status Icons
As you may know, at any time, you can check the status of any pending or registered trademark at the United State Patent and Trademark...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Mar 2, 20174 min read
Initial Steps to Protecting Your Art
The internet is one of the best means to share your art work and to gain exposure. However, your work on the internet is also extremely...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Feb 9, 20172 min read
Hague Agreement and the First Hague Design Granted Protection in the United States
The Hague Agreement is an international registration system that allows the possibility of obtaining protection for up to 100 industrial...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Jan 4, 20173 min read
Don't Wait to Record Changes in Ownership of International IP
Part of my position as an international paralegal is handling the recordation of ownership changes in various countries. This can be...
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Cassandra L. Wilkinson
Nov 18, 20162 min read
Clothing and Toy Drive
UPDATE: The drive was a success! Thank you so much to everyone who participated! Head, Johnson & Kachigian, P.C., in connection with...
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