Month: September 2016

written by James Klobucar, Esq., Patent Attorney at Gearhart Law www.GearhartLaw.com As many have likely now heard, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), namely the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), has canceled six trademark registrations owned by Pro-Football, Inc. and attributable to the “Washington Redskins” American football team of the National Football...

By: Matthew G. Miller, Gearhart Law www.gearhartstg.wpenginepowered.com World Cup ball progression You probably know that the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil kicks off this June 12. However, you might not know that a new soccer ball is created specifically for each World Cup. Now I know what you’re thinking, How does one develop a new...

written by James Klobucar, Esq., patent attorney at Gearhart Law
www.Gearhartlaw.com Inventing Outside the Box…or Speaker Binauric, a German based company, has created a new Bluetooth® enabled speaker called “Boom Boom” which can acquire new functionalities throughout its lifespan. Such technology is a breath of fresh air in our current technological revolution where a...

Written by Matthew G. Miller, Gearhart Law www.gearhartstg.wpenginepowered.com Google, the Mountain View-based search giant, is preparing for the release of their hotly anticipated new product,Google Glass. Aside from promoting Google Glass through various publicity stunts, Google is also looking to protect their legal rights associated with Google Glass. The company has filed a...

Written by Matthew G. Miller, Gearhart Law www.GearhartLaw.com Over the past few years, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two seminal opinions on patent law: Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (“Myriad”) and Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories (“Mayo”). Each of these cases grappled with what constitutes patent-eligible subject...

written by Elizabeth Gearhart, Ph.D., patent agent at Gearhart Law www.gearhartstg.wpenginepowered.com Apple has finally done it! At least we hope this technology works out. They’ve invented a solar-powered MacBook. They’ve even been issued a patent for it: US Patent # 8,638,549, “Electronic device display module.” You can view the patent on the USPTO website: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8638549.PN.&OS=PN/8638549&RS=PN/8638549 Click...

® ™ Should I get a trademark, copyright, or patent? How do I go about getting a trademark? Do I need an attorney? What are the roles of the USPTO and the trademark attorney? If you’ve ever had any of these or other trademark questions, now there’s a free website you can go to for answers. The...

written by James Klobucar, Esq., Patent Attorney at Gearhart Law www.Gearhartlaw.com One of the latest news stories to take the internet by storm stemmed from reports that King.com, makers of the wildly popular Candy Crush mobile application (amongst others), has trademarked the word “candy” in the United States. The furor brought about statements of disbelief...

written by Susanne Somersalo, Ph.D., Esq., patent attorney at Gearhart Law www.GearhartLaw.com How to expedite patent prosecution? Some statistics According to the USPTO statistics of November 2013 there were 590,070 patent applications waiting to get examined in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The expected time from filing of a patent application to the first office...

written by Roy Rosser, Ph.D., Patent Agent www.GearhartLaw.com Christmas Tree: Real or Fake? With Christmas trees, even a child can tell the difference just by looking. So the real question for trees is not are they fake, but “Which is greener?” A topic that is bitterly disputed on the websites of the National Christmas Tree Association...