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Virtual patent marking

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

If you own intellectual property, it is best practices to act like the owner by appropriately marking your IPR assets. Intellectual property markings

Supreme Court to decide reverse payment settlement agreements

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2013

The Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of "reverse payment," also known as "pay-to-delay," settlements. These agreements, most commonly

The Triangle as IP epicenter

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 5 2013

The Triangle is growing more and more each year and people are taking note. Raleigh is frequently listed as one of the top cities in the country for

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in patent lawyer malpractice

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2013

A client develops software and leases it to third party. The client hires a patent lawyer to file a patent application on the software. After the

Experiences with the Patent Office’s prioritized examination option

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

The implementation of the America Invents Act last September 2011 provided for a new prioritized examination process for patent applications at the US Patent and Trademark Office

Do the AIA's changes to patent law's best mode requirement open the door to "best mode trade secret" protection?

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2012

To obtain a patent, the inventor must “set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention” in his patent application

A grey area?

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2012

To say there has been a lot of controversy surrounding E.L. James’s best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey would be putting things mildly

The balancing act between social networks and content providers

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 22 2012

A three judge panel from the 7th Circuit, which included the influential Judge Richard Posner, recently handed down a significant decision regarding the copyright implications of video streaming over social networks

US Patent Office publishes final rules for post-grant review

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 14 2012

After receiving comments from the public on its proposed rules, the Patent Office today issued the final rules for post-grant review and other proceedings

USPTO satellite selection snubs South

  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 3 2012

Apparently the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office prefers the Rocky Mountain alpine views to the heated innovation of the South