Introduction On July  1, 2024, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published In...

ATLANTA (June 7, 2024) - Amanda Hyland, a partner at Taylor English in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice, has been named a global...

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...

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...

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...

I am pleased to share my Law360 article, covering the duty of candor and good faith featured in Guidance on Use of Artificial...

In 1881, George Eastman, a former bank clerk from Rochester, New York, who grew fascinated with photography, formed the Eastman Dry Plate...

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...

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...

Any review of historic patents, like this series of posts, has to include arguably the most important invention of the 20th Century: the...

Continuing with my look at historic patents, this is Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) that was ultimately...

A patent acts as a legal tool, granting inventors exclusive rights over a specific timeframe, preventing unauthorized creation, usage,...