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The news of Google's acquisition of Nest Labs for $3.2 billion cast a spotlight on an ongoing debate in startups: Should they bother to seek patents to protect their inventions or not? Read More »
Trademarks are most often thought of as words or designs that convey the source of the product. Everyone knows whose product it is when they see the Nike "swoosh" or encounter the words "Coca-Cola." Read More »
Patent trolls, who buy vague and overly broad patents to demand fees from companies, have recently started targeting tech startups with patent infringement lawsuits. Read More »
Angelina Jolie recently made headlines for her preemptive mastectomy after learning that she carried the BRCA genes, which are linked to breast cancer. It is not often that pop culture intersects with patent law, but on June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an opinion that had been anxiously awaited by many in the scientific community and had ties to Jolie's news. Read More »
Companies, both big and small, take a variety of approaches when it comes to protecting intellectual property. Some companies focus on product development and marketing with little focus on protecting intellectual assets, while others narrowly protect their own products or planned products. Read More »
The U.S. Patent Act defines the circumstances in which the federal government may issue patents. Until recently, our patent laws had not been significantly updated since 1952, the year that patents were issued for the PEZ dispenser, Mr. Potato Head and the earliest bar code scanner. Read More »
Realizing that the current immigration laws are not start-up friendly, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) launched an "entrepreneur-in-residence" ("EIR") program in October 2011. Read More »
Davis Brown attorneys Emily Harris and Courtney Strutt Todd were selected the Des Moines Business Record's Forty Under 40 Awards. Read More »
Google. Gatorade. MRI Imaging. What do these seemingly unrelated products have in common? They all have roots in intellectual property developed and are owned by universities. Look no further than our own state universities for such success stories. Read More »
Intellectual Property Law - "So a jury recently decided that Samsung deliberately copied the rounded corners of the iPhone and punished the company with an award to Apple exceeding $1 billion? How is that even possible?" Read More »
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