Day: September 7, 2016

What’s Up Down Under? For any US inventor or entrepreneur with business interests in Australia, April 15 2013 is not merely Tax filing day – it is also the date of an important change in Australian Patent Law. Bowing to the pressures of globalization, Australia is in the process of harmonizing its Intellectual Property Laws to...

R U a μ-N it E? (Translation: Are you a micro-entity?) First of all, apart from the sheer novelty of it, why would an entrepreneur or inventor want to be a micro-entity? Every cloud has a silver lining. For the AIA “First Inventor to Invent” cloud due on Saturday, March 16th, that silver lining may be a 75%...

Christie’s Angels go Tax Free – will it help NJ Entrepreneurs? Did hanging out with Bruce and Barak change Governor Christie – or is just that it’s a gubernatorial election year? Whatever the reason, it’s good news for NJ Angel investor’s and NJ’s emerging business start-ups. First Thursday in February, the Chris had a...

By: Richard Gearhart “First to file” replaces “first to invent.”If two inventors invent the same technology, the one who files the patent on it first gets the intellectual property protection, regardless of who invented it first. This aligns the US patent system with the other countries of the world. For example, if inventor A invents...

By: Roy Rosser For Inventors, Entrepreneurs and companies doing business in Europe, Christmas arrived early. December 10thto be precise. Disguised as the Parliament of the European Union (EU), Santa turned up in Strasbourg and granted inventors and entrepreneurs three, forty year old wishes: A single patent, valid throughout Europe A single language for writing...

By: Susanne Somersalo In majority of the countries an invention is patentable only if it has not been published before the patent application. The United States has a different system where the inventor may publish her invention not more than one year before filing the application. It is not always clear what is ‘publication’ and...

By Harry Du Is there a patent equivalent of “one person, one vote?” Undoubtedly, there is. A doctrinal pillar of the patent system takes the form of “one invention, one patent.” That sounds awfully straightforward and self-explanatory, right? Not so fast. What is ONE invention? If you invented a special syringe...

Gearhart Law is pleased to be a vendor for American Chemical Society Entrepreneurship Initiative, offering reduced-cost patent, trademark, and general intellectual property services to entrepreneurs who contact us through the initiative. By Elizabeth Gearhart Do you have an idea for a chemical solution to a problem? Do you have an idea for a new business in the...

A series of classic photography books will now be published in Chinese after a Beijing-based publishing company purchased the Asian rights to them from the Museum of Modern Art. A series of classic photography books will now be published in Chinese after a Beijing-based publishing company purchased the Asian rights to them from the Museum...