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You probably know that trademarks can be words, stylized text, and pictures: like brand names, slogans, and logos. But you may not know that you can have shape trademarks trademarks could be just [...]

Groundhog Day is a tradition celebrated mostly in the US and Canada, yearly on Feb. 2nd, in which if a groundhog sees its shadow, winter will persist, and if the groundhog doesn’t, then [...]

Today, Star Wars fans rejoice as we greet each other with a cheery “May the Fourth be with you!”  In case you’ve never heard of this, or seen social media light up with it every [...]

Apple Computer turned 40 years old today.  No April Fool’s joke here – Apple was started on April 1, 1976.  The Apple Computer founders formed a Partnership, which has a crucial lesson for [...]

Today is Pi Day: March 14th, when written as 3-14 (in the American style), looks like the first 3 digits of pi.  Today is an auspicious Pi Day, as the abbreviated (American) style of writing [...]

What could be more appropriate for Valentine’s Day than roses, candy, and diamonds?  How about patents related to roses, candy, and diamonds!  Read on to discover more [...]

Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – or, the 217th anniversary of it.  He is the only U.S. President who has ever been granted a patent.  To celebrate his birthday, his inventiveness and [...]

The holiday season is here (and winter has started with the solstice, although on much of the US East Coast it doesn’t quite feel like winter… yet).  And with the holidays, of course, [...]

Star Wars: Episode VII, The Force Awakens (IMDB listing; Google search), opens tonight for most of us – the Force is strong with those who have already seen it.  Excited, I am!  (That’s an [...]

Reflecting on Veterans Day last week, as a patent attorney, I thought about inventions and patents that have kept, and still keep, our service members safer and let them do their jobs more [...]