10 Jul, 2024 TTAB Issues 1st Precedential Opinion in a Trademark Expungement Proceeding By Michael Cicero Introduction On July 1, 2024, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published In...
09 May, 2024 Kodak's Patent for the Digital Camera By Taylor English We previously looked at Kodak's 1885 patent for its original, easy-to-use camera. We've also seen Bell Labs' 1950 patent for the...
24 Apr, 2024 Main Text of the FTC's New Rule Banning Restrictive Covenants Quoted Here By Michael Cicero Below is the final text of 16 C.F.R. § 910.2, as it will be published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Federal Register. Such...
23 Apr, 2024 Edwin Land's Patents for Instant Photography and the Polaroid Camera By Taylor English In my last post, we looked at George Eastman's 1885 patent for the Kodak camera, the first portable, easy-to-use camera that brought...
22 Apr, 2024 Law360 Article Published on the Duty of Candor Featured in USPTO's AI Ethics Guidance By Michael Cicero I am pleased to share my Law360 article, covering the duty of candor and good faith featured in Guidance on Use of Artificial...
10 Apr, 2024 George Eastman's Patent for the Kodak Camera By Taylor English In 1881, George Eastman, a former bank clerk from Rochester, New York, who grew fascinated with photography, formed the Eastman Dry Plate...
25 Mar, 2024 Morse's Patent on the Telegraph By Taylor English We're going back a bit, to June 20, 1840, when Samuel Morse's patent, U.S. Patent No. 1,647, issued for his “American Electro-Magnetic...
18 Mar, 2024 The Wright Brothers' Patent for the "Flying Machine" By Taylor English Our next historical patent in this series is U.S. Patent No. 821,393, filed by Orville and Wilbur Wright on March 23, 1903, about 9...
11 Mar, 2024 Bell Labs' Patents for the Transistor By Taylor English Any review of historic patents, like this series of posts, has to include arguably the most important invention of the 20th Century: the...
04 Mar, 2024 Bell's Patent for the Telephone By Taylor English Continuing with my look at historic patents, this is Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) that was ultimately...
26 Feb, 2024 Edison's Patent for the Electric Light Bulb By Taylor English After reading some fascinating books about innovation recently, like The Idea Factory, John Gertner's in-depth look at Bell Labs, and The...
15 Feb, 2024 USPTO Publishes Guidance Allowing Use of AI to Derive an Invention if a Human "Significantly Contributed" to It By Michael Cicero Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be named as an “inventor” in a U.S. patent application, but it can be used as a tool to derive an...