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Patent Liaisons and IP Strategy Development
Many technically intensive companies utilize patent liaisons to augment their intellectual property (IP) work. Patent liaisons work with patent attorneys and inventors and can have a wide variety of job responsibilities, thereby helping to provide additional trained “legal” resources to a business in a very economical manner.
Some patent liaisons are expected to manage the IP processes of a business, such as determining the filing priority of the inventions a business generates, and to make other decisions associated with the overall IP management program. Other patent liaisons are expected to perform prior art searches or to work with inventors to draft patent applications and responses to patent office actions. Most patent liaisons actually do a combination of managing, prior art searching, and writing, essentially doing whatever the business needs done to achieve its IP and business goals.
While a patent liaison can have a paralegal degree, the typical patent liaison has a technical degree or is technically trained, and understands both the general technical and business details of the organization. Many patent liaisons are engineers or scientists that have a keen interest in patents, have broad technical experience, and have good communication skills, particularly writing skills. At a minimum they have a good grasp of basic patent law. Many patent liaisons study for and pass the patent office “bar” exam to increase their patent law knowledge and become registered patent agents.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.