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June 11th, 2019Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service: The Federal Government Cannot Use IPRs or Other AIA Post-Grant ReviewsOn June 10, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service,…Read More

May 30th, 2019Protecting Descriptive Trademarks Through the Supplemental RegisterIdentifying an effective trademark can be a daunting task.  Besides trying to find a mark that is not already being…Read More

May 28th, 2019Trademark Consent AgreementsSooner or later, most brand owners must evaluate the pros and cons of trademark consent agreements. As the applicant seeking…Read More

May 14th, 2019Patent Trends in AgTechGlobal agricultural productivity more than tripled between 1960 and 2015.[1] Despite such impressive growth, given current trends, global hunger will…Read More

May 7th, 2019USPTO Releases New Examination Guidelines for Trademarks Covering Cannabis and Cannabis-Related GoodsOn May 2nd, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released new guidelines for the examination of trademarks associated with…Read More

April 30th, 2019The Dirty Secret About Trade SecretsThe idea of a trade secret evokes thoughts of Coca-Cola’s famous secret recipe with its very own dedicated vault or…Read More

April 29th, 2019Do You Know the Origin of your Website Content? . . . and Why You Should.Much has been written about patent trolls.  While not as widely publicized, trolls of a different flavor, namely copyright trolls,…Read More

April 12th, 2019Who is an Inventor on a Patent Application? Not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry…From time to time, when exploring the question of inventorship with a client, I’ve been told things along the lines…Read More

March 26th, 2019Get a Patentability Search Before Filing Your Patent ApplicationYou are going on a 2-year trip, and it’s going to cost you about $20,000. If you don’t know what…Read More

March 26th, 2019DATA PRIVACY: Responding to Law-Enforcement RequestsOver the last handful of years, data/information privacy has become a mainstream, hot-button topic. Most of the time, data privacy…Read More

March 6th, 2019GO SPEED RACER GO! Winning Strategies for Getting that Patent Issued – SPEEDILY.The length of the patent examination process (generally 2-4 years) tends to frustrate inventors and large companies alike.  Occasionally, the…Read More

February 28th, 2019Now May Not be the Best Time to Enforce Your Diagnostic Method PatentAthena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2019). In the wake of the Federal Circuit’s decision to…Read More

February 20th, 2019Workman Nydegger IP Attorney, J. Dustin Howell discusses insights into patents, trademarks and intellectual property on the Live Create Launch Podcast.[embed width="450"]https://lassonde.utah.edu/live-create-launch-podcast-dustin-howell-ip-attorney-workman-nydegger/[/embed]Read More

February 11th, 2019THINKING ABOUT MARKUSH-TYPE CLAIM STRUCTURE – AGAINI wrote about this same general subject nearly 2 years ago[1], but believe it is worth repeating, as I still…Read More

February 4th, 2019Supreme Court in Helsinn: Secret Sales Can Qualify as Prior Art Under the AIAPrior to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), 35 U.S.C. §102 entitled a person to a patent unless, among other…Read More