In 2014 Jack Daniel’s Properties demanded VIP stop selling a squeaky dog toy that somewhat resembles a Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottle, but which also bears an image of a spaniel and includes funny phrases like “Bad Spaniels”, “the Old No. 2 on your Tennessee Carpet”,...
Thaler claims to own an artificial intelligence “AI” software system named DABUS, which is an acronym for “Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience”. Thaler further claims that DABUS conceived of two patentable inventions, one for a fractal-shaped...
Starting Tuesday, June 7, 2022, the US Patent and Trademark Office will begin issuing only electronic trademark registration certificates, accessible through the website https://tsdr.uspto.gov/. Trademark owners will have the option to request paper “presentation”...
Kathi Vidal was confirmed by the United States Senate as Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Kathi will lead the USPTO’s 13,000+ employees and its nearly $4 billion budget. She...
In January 2013, I had the privilege of being in the room with greatness. My husband, Tony, and I attended the Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding and Tolerance at Lehigh University. In an informal question and answer format, former Secretary of State Madeleine...
US utility patents have issued at a more rapid pace in the last ten years – see bar graph. While it took almost 15 years (from 1976 to 1991) for one-million US utility patents to issue between US Pat. 4,000,000 and US Pat. 5,000,000, the pace of patenting has...
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