Intellectual Property

On the face of it, this looks like a good result for both companies. Read the Story Here

Good deal of activity (commercial and intellectual property) these days in health and lifestyle monitoring bands worn on the wrist. As this piece says, the Google patent application does not mean there’ll be a corresponding product – patents are usually applied for well before final testing and commercial viability studies. Watch the space (apologies for […]

Good US-oriented piece underlining how important it is for entrepreneurs to build real client/patent attorney working partnerships.  As the piece suggests, filing Provisional Patent Applications is a good thing. Care is, of course, needed to ensure they confer their filing date on subject-matter claimed in the entrepreneur’s follow-on patent applications in other jurisdictions.  Where that important-to-crucial goal […]

Good for Disney, good for Chinese IP – result giving force to the recently announced Chinese official commitment to act against misuse of Disney’s brand. In the context of what a $US5.5 billion Shanghai theme park means to local politics and China’s consumer class, such use of powers which exist makes perfect sense. But a […]