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Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Patent Reform: Differences Between the Senate and House Bills and What Patent Reform Means to Inventors

Patent Reform: Differences Between the Senate and House Bills and What Patent Reform Means to Inventors Patent and Technology trial lawyer Stan Gibson discusses what a final patent reform bill may look like. Under discussion for years with many different proposals that never made it through committee hearings, patent reform now appears more likely than […]

Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Challenge the Written Description: Pending patent applications may be defeated by provisional patents filed earlier

Notes from the Inventor Underground Challenge the Written Description Patent and Technology trial lawyer Stan Gibson discusses how pending patent applications may be defeated by provisional patents filed earlier, unless you challenge the written description. In pursuing patents for their inventions, inventors need to make sure that earlier filed provisional patent applications filed by other […]

Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Careful — Your Continuation May Lose Priority

Notes from the Inventor Underground Careful — Your Continuation May Lose Priority Patent and Technology trial lawyer Stan Gibson discusses what happens when the claims of the continuation application are not supported by the written description of the parent patent. When preparing and filing patent applications and continuation applications for patents, it is important to […]

Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Protect Your Intellectual Property — Review Your Assignment Agreements Now

Notes from the Inventor Underground Protect Your Intellectual Property — Review Your Assignment Agreements Now Patent and Technology trial lawyer Stan Gibson discusses the importance of choosing the right language of assignment in order to assure ownership of intellectual property that is created in the future. A number of recent Federal Circuit decisions have highlighted […]

Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Divorces, Community Property and Intellectual Property — an Overlooked Problem and Some Solutions

Notes from the Inventor Underground Divorces, Community Property and Intellectual Property — an Overlooked Problem and Some Solutions Patent and Technology trial lawyer Stan Gibson discusses whether community property laws give divorced spouses rights to an inventor’s patent, and why inventors, owners and purchasers of patents should care. One important aspect of conducting due diligence […]

Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group Protecting Ownership of Your Intellectual Property: The Importance of Employment Agreements

Notes from the Inventor Underground Protecting Ownership of Your Intellectual Property: The Importance of Employment Agreements Patent and Technology trial lawyer Stan Gibson discusses the importance of employment agreements in assigning and protecting the ownership of intellectual property. A recent decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal, Stanford University v. Roche, 583 F.3d 832 […]

Intellectual Property Client Alert: Be Sure Your Patent Numbers Are Correct

LOS ANGELES –April 12, 2010– Rod Berman, chair of the Intellectual Property Group at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP (JMBM), warns that a recent ruling may put owners of patents and patent applications at significant financial risk. Under the False Patent Marking Statute, businesses can be sued for substantial damages if they distribute products […]