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Safe Access Near or Far with Patented Remote Access
Corporate Safe Specialists (CSS) are helping to protect our goods with their patented electronic safe locking mechanism. Send2press.com details CSS’s invention, which involves using a computer to operate an electronic safe lock via a series of electronic signals. This gives users control of their safe even from a remote location. According to President of CSS, Ed McGunn, "This technolog... Read More
Patenting Games In UK Undergoes Changes
As a Miami patent attorney with a number of clients having inventions relating to toys and games and interested in patenting overseas, I follow changes to toy and game patents in the U.S. and abroad. Patenting games in the UK is undergoing changes in procedure. According to a post in out-law.com, the UK Patent Office has declared a change in the manner it will be examining patent applications for ... Read More
Florida Venture Blog Excellent Resource for Intellectual Property Entrepreneurs
Dan Rua, an experienced early-stage venture capital investor with a technology foundation and product design, development, and management experience, is the author of Florida Venture Blog. The blog, described as "a running perspective on Florida’s growing tech and venture community," provides valuable information for those individuals seeking to build companies by innovative ... Read More
Miami Intellectual Property Attorney’s Blog Entitled The Counterfeit Blog
An excellent resource for Miami and Florida intellectual property issues is the Counterfeit Blog, concentrating on anti-counterfeiting law and policing. The blog is published by Miami, Florida Attorney Leora Herrman, who has been fighting counterfeiters for more than a decade. Ms. Herrmann’s legal expertise includes anti-counterfeiting, copyrights, licensing of trademarks, patent... Read More
Trademark Infringement Case is High Steaks
The Nashville Post reports that Orlando Florida-based Darden Restaurants, the owner of Red Lobster and Olive Garden, is being sued for trademark infringement by Nashville-based O’Charley’s owner of the Stoney River chain. The dispute stems over Darden Restaurant’s new concept for a steakhouse, Rocky River Grillhouse, a lodge type eatery serving grilled steaks and seafo... Read More
Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Pompano Beach, Florida, Company, PedMed Express, Inc. Settled
More Florida patent infringement lawsuit news today on PRNewswire. Read the complete article about PetMed Express, Inc.’s alleged patent infringement lawsuit and settlement via license agreement on PRNewswire or below: PetMed Express, Inc. and Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Settle Patent Lawsuit and Enter Into License Agreement LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 /PRNew... Read More
Patented SIDS Alert to Keep Babies Safe
Keeping babies safe is paramount for parents, and the newly patented SIDS Alert alarm is likely to assuage parental concerns over their sleeping infants. Sudden Infant Death Syndrom affects approximately 2,500 U.S. families annually, with the American Association of Pediatricians long recommending that babies sleep on their backs. SIDS Alert makes parents aware when their infants roll onto their s... Read More
Copyright Treatise Excellent Resource
William Patry has authored a new 7 volume (no appendices), 5,830 page treatise on copyright that West just published. The treatise is unusual in a lot respects. It is an extremely comprehensive treatise on copyright and Mr. Patry believes it is one of the largest legal treatises ever written by a single individual. Mr. Patry has a diverse background, w... Read More
Florida Trademark Infringement Litigation
Florida trademark infringement lawsuits can be brought under either the Florida trademark statute (Chapter 495) or under federal law (Lanham Act) depending upon whether or not a federal trademark registration has been obtained. If you are not sure if you or someone else has obtained a Florida trademark registration, you may want to do a search on the Florida trademark database... Read More
Trademark Infringement Takes a Bite out of Apple
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Apple, Inc. has been sued by Cisco Systems, Inc. over the use of the iPhone name, prompting a traddmark infringement battle the day after Apple introduced its new mobile device under the same name. Cisco filed suit Wednesday, January 10, 2007 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, trying to prevent the iPhone name from ... Read More
Florida and California Inventors Patent Plasma Process
According to an article posted on Reed Electronics.com, Kent Rossman of Orlando, Florida, along with Zhong Qiang Hua of Saratoga, California, Zhengquan Tan of Cupertino, California, and Zhuang Li of San Jose, California, has developed a new multistep remote plasma clean process which was originally filed on May 21, 2002 and has now become a registered patent. The invention relates to a "proce... Read More
Patenting Lifestyle Innovations Drives Maclaren’s Success
There’s a tremendous business opportunity in baby strollers, with contemporary moms always on the lookout for the next best in stylish, convenient innovation. According to an article at www.babyuniverse.com, the Maclaren Baby Buggy has been touted as one the top one-hundred clever inventions in the book Century Makers, which highlights patented inventions that have dramatically changed the l... Read More
Mark Twain, Born in Florida, Mo, and Better Known as an Author and Humorist Was Also an Inventor and Patent Holder
When most people think of Samuel Clemens, or Mark Twain as he has penned himself in his writings, they think of the famous author and fondly recall reading his well known works Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Few realize that Mark Twain, born in Florida, Mo., was also an aspiring inventor and the holder of three U.S. patents. From what little Mark Twain wrote of patents in his fiction, ... Read More
Ionic Silver Complex Technology Achieving Multi-Country Patents
In the last century, we’ve witnessed colloidal silver and silver nitrate being used extensively in the medical field. Invision International plans to capitalize on this and has obtained a U.S. Patent for their "Ionic Silver Complex" technology according to an article at send2press.com. Invision International is a pioneer in the field of ionic silver use in humans and has patented t... Read More
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Announces Re-examination of Patent in Lawsuit
Business Wire reports that the United States Patent & Trademark Office will reexamine U.S. Patent No. 6,725,438. This patent is one of three at issue in a lawsuit between Magma Design Automation, Inc. and Synopsys, Inc., pending in the U.S. District Court in the Northern DIstrict of California. In light of this decision, the USPTO is currently in the process of reexamining two of the thr... Read More