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Articles on Intellectual Property

Intellectual improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, May 1999 Popular patents. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a record 151,024 patents in 1998, up 33% from 113,720 in 1997. For the sixth year in a row, IBM was the leading patentee, with 2,657 issued patents, up 54% from 1997.
Safe IP: Corporate name and trademark differ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, May 1999 Don't be confused between corporate names and trademarks. Incorporation, partnership, and other business and nonprofit organization status is governed by state law.
Selected U.S. domain name case decisions By David Loundy Intellectual Property, May 1999 The first Internet domain name case decision was released in 1994, the second domain name case decision was a year later.
Congress calls a time-out on Internet taxes By Miriam V. Hallbauer Intellectual Property, February 1999 The Internet is a booming marketplace. Internet sales, already reaching billions of dollars annually, likely will reach the hundreds of billions in the next decade.
The “Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act” By David Loundy Intellectual Property, February 1999 An important piece of legislation was signed by President Clinton in October, the "Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act," passed as part of the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (Public Law 105-304), that affects Internet service providers and copyright holders that are infringed online.
Recent changes to trademark opposition and cancellation practice By Joseph T. Nabor Intellectual Property, February 1999 The Patent and Trademark Office has recently issued its amendment to the Rules of Practice in inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Safe IP By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, February 1999 Filing a document. To an intellectual property attorney, "filing a document" generally means ensuring the document is accepted by the proper government office, often the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office, or a foreign government office.
Sausage maker scores $11 million verdict in trade secret case By Steven L. Baron Intellectual Property, February 1999 Meatpacking giant, IBP, Inc., learned the literal truth of von Bismarck's famous quip the hard way.

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