Most people who file for patents look forward to the day their patent is issued, wishing it could come sooner so that their invention is protected as early as possible by law. There are others, however, who want to slow the process of patent prosecution. Financial...
Chicago sues coffee company over logo
The Chicago Fire Department says it has three main jobs: promote fire safety, provide emergency care and extinguish fires. You’ll notice that brewing coffee for the city’s 2.7 million residents is not on the list. The city of Chicago made that point clear in a...
2020: Economy down, patent litigation up
Economic downturns like the one the pandemic produced last year tend to produce certain effects, such as rising unemployment, a decrease in gross domestic product, a drop in gasoline prices due to reduced demand, a tightening of credit and an increase in patent...
Patent infringement: What’s the difference between willful and unintentional?
You’re standing outside, throwing a baseball back and forth with a friend. One of your throws sails to the right, however, and smashes through your neighbor’s window. While it’s clear that you didn’t intentionally lob the ball at the glass, that doesn’t take you off...
