"Lawsuits primarily benefit the attorneys and nobody else."
- Bryce's Law

INTRODUCTION

The protection of intellectual property should be a significant concern to all
Information Technology organizations. Without protection, commercial
hardware/software vendors would quickly evaporate as others would inevitably
steal their designs and programs. Corporate developers would also suffer if
their ideas, inventions, and programs were...

Legal Claim UK is a nationwide network of specialist personal injury law solicitors who are members of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts and will deal with claims using the no win no fee scheme. Compensation is paid in full² and our claims are completely risk free. You will not be asked to pay anything at all as the case proceeds.
Each year in the UK over two million people are hurt in accidents caused by another persons negligence and these include road traffic...

According to a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors commercial property survey, the industrial property recorded its strongest increase in demand for five years in contrast to the retail property market which continues to decline despite a recent recovery in sales. Retail property demand has fallen for the sixth consecutive quarter.
The demand for industrial space was particularly noticeable in the North West and Wales while London experienced a more moderate rise. Activity was...

Intellectual asset management is a structured and disciplined approach for turning ideas and knowledge into intellectual property and revenues.

Implementing an intellectual asset management program requires a process driven approach. A process is "a sequence of activities that take an input and produce an output. In business, a process is supposed to add value to the input before producing the output.” Each step of an intellectual asset management process informs...

The golden rule for a trial attorney is “know your judge.” This maxim also applies to domain name disputes where the UDRP Panel plays the role of the judge.

With this maxim in mind, parties involved in domain name dispute resolution should be aware of how the panels work, how you have the right to select how many panelists handle your case, and how you can ultimately affect which particular panelist is selected - so as to best know their "judge(s)".

What Do Factors Do?

The term 'factors' might be a little confusing to the layperson. Typically, the word is used in the sense of causative factors that lead to some result. In the financial world, however, factors are like bankers, a class of financiers. Factors buy future payments from present recipients and pay them a discounted sum as the price of the payments. They then collect the payments direct from the payers in due time. This works because the original recipient is...

Our law firm receives a lot of calls from people and companies who are being threatened with an Anti-Cyber Squatting Consumer Protection Act claim because they registered a domain name identical or similar to a trademark held by someone else. Inevitably, we hear the words “Network Solutions allowed me to register the domain, so there is no way someone can say that I did anything wrong.”

Of course, Network Solutions and the other registrars do little to ensure that...

Can You Sue "the State" For Patent Infringement?

By Rick Neifeld, Neifeld IP Law, PC

Can a patentee sue a State of the United States for patent infringement under federal law?Under current Supreme Court law, no, unless the State has waived its sovereign immunity.

Under the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, States of the United States have sovereign immunity to suit. Only if a State waives its sovereign immunity to suit, can it be...

Mechanical engineering perhaps has the oldest known inventions andpatents. In fact, the word ‘engineering’ is derived from a mechanical component. Mechanical engineering is a field that was conceived from natural laws of physics, where one engineers or manipulates these laws to his/her advantage.Mechanical patentsnon exhaustively and generally encompass utility tools invented constituting force, motion, mass, etc. It specifically encompasses all mechanical devices,...

“I have thought through and worked out the innovative concept in my mind. Can I patent it at this stage?” The inventor is typically in a dilemma as to when he/she should proceed to start thepatenting process. The life cycle of converting an innovative idea into a product typically runs into many years. During which of these stages should one file for patent protection – when the inventive concept is firmed up, at a first level prototype, mature prototype, early product...