Will you be in Barcelona this May at the time of the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association? If so, maybe you would like to rub elbows with the savvy and alert people who belong to the E-Trademarks Listserv. Maybe you would like to attend the Seventh Annual E-Trademarks Listserv reception. To attend the reception you will need to have one of these spiffy ribbons (see at right) attached to your meeting badge. To receive one of these spiffy ribbons, just scan the QR code in the ribbon. Or you can click here.
SSL progress for www.oppedahl.com
We at OPLF should have done it a long time ago … but finally today we have implemented SSL (“https”) for our main web site www.oppedahl.com. In addition we have configured the SSL on https://www.oppedahl.com so that it uses PFS (perfect forward secrecy). The domain name itself has for several years now been protected by DNSSEC.
One reason that a webmaster should implement SSL is that Google and the other search engines give a small boost in page ranking to a web site that supports SSL.
But the more important reason to implement SSL is simply to make web connections more secure. Among other things SSL eliminates eavesdropping on a web connection.
If you haven’t already done so, you should implement SSL (and PFS, and DNSSEC) on the web sites that you operate.
Save the date — AIPLA’s PCT Seminar 2017
The dates have been set for the 21st annual AIPLA PCT Seminar. The Seminar will take place in Arlington, Virginia on Monday and Tuesday, July 24 and 25, 2017.
Save the date for this seminar. There’s nothing quite like this seminar, which has representatives of patent offices as well as experienced private practitioners. Here are comments from two who attended:
“Each and every presenter was incredibly knowledgeable and provided us with invaluable information.”
“Excellent panel.”
Have you attended one of the twenty previous AIPLA PCT Seminars? Did you find it helpful? Please post a comment below.
Opportunities to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty
There are quite a few upcoming opportunities to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty:
- February 23, 2017 in San Jose, California
- March 9, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia
- April 5-7, 2017 in Orlando, Florida
- June 8, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Building a guitar compressor pedal
The other day we had soldering cl
ass at Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC. Everybody at the firm received a nice soldering station and soldering tools and a toolbox to keep everything in. We assembled several do-it-yourself kits that required soldering. Some of our people already knew how to solder and got through the kits pretty quickly, and others got to learn how to solder for the first time. Continue reading “Building a guitar compressor pedal”
A curate’s egg
Curate: “Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!”
I’ve been teaching patent law as an adjunct professor at University of Denver law school for some twenty years, and every one of my students over the years has heard my recommendation that they subscribe to The Economist. I think The Economist offers a very helpful non-American perspective on events of the day.
Today, reading The Economist, I learned the term a “curate’s egg”. As Wikipedia explains, a curate’s egg is something that is mostly or partly bad, but partly good. The term has its origin in a cartoon published in 1895 in the British humor magazine Punch. Drawn by George du Maurier, it pictures a timid-looking curate eating breakfast in his bishop’s house. The bishop says:
I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones.
The curate, desperate not to offend his eminent host and ultimate employer, replies:
Oh no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!
A Google search for the term “curate’s egg” yields over a hundred thousand hits.
Patent firms that might get left out of the utility patent tote board
Here are some firms that were ranked in last year’s Utility Patent Tote Board, but which have not yet responded for this year’s Utility Patent Tote Board.
If you know somebody at one of these firms, you might want to pass this along to them. The response date has been extended from January 20, 2017 to January 23, 2017. To respond, click here.
| Andrus Intellectual Property Law, LLP |
| Antoinette M. Tease, P.L.L.C. |
| Armstrong Teasdale |
| Baker Botts |
| Banner & Witcoff |
| Blakely Sokoloff |
| Brinks Gilson |
| Brownstein Hyatt |
| Bryan Cave |
| Buchanan Ingersoll |
| Christie Parker |
| Cochran Freund |
| Conley Rose |
| Crossley Patent Law |
| Dorsey & Whitney |
| Drinker Biddle |
| Duft Bornsen |
| Faegre Baker Daniels |
| Fenwick & West |
| Finnegan Henderson |
| Fish & Richardson |
| Fitzpatrick Cella |
| Foley & Lardner |
| Greenberg Traurig |
| Hamilton DeSanctis |
| Hartman Patents PLLC |
| Hauptman Ham, LLP |
| Head, Johnson & Kachigian, PC |
| HIPLegal LLP |
| Hoffman Warnick LLC |
| Hogan Lovells |
| Holland & Hart |
| HolzerIPLaw |
| IP&L Solutions |
| Juneau & Mitchell |
| K&L Gates |
| Kain Spielman |
| Katten Muchin Rosenman |
| Kenyon & Kenyon |
| Kilpatrick Townsend |
| Klaas Law O’Meara |
| Knobbe Martens |
| Ladas & Parry |
| Larson & Anderson |
| Lathrop & Gage |
| Law Office of Robert Rose |
| Leason Ellis |
| Lemaire Patent Law Firm |
| Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. |
| Macheledt Bales LLP |
| Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP |
| McDermott Will |
| Merchant & Gould |
| Morgan Lewis |
| Morrison & Foerster |
| Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. |
| Neugeboren O’Dowd PC |
| Nixon Peabody |
| Nixon Vanderhye |
| Norred Law, PLLC |
| Novak Druce |
| Oblon McClelland |
| Ollila Law Group |
| Patentfile, LLC |
| Patterson Thuente |
| Patwrite Law |
| Pepper Hamilton |
| Perkins Coie |
| Pillsbury Winthrop |
| Polsinelli PC |
| Polson Intellectual Property Law |
| Pritzkau Patent Group, LLP |
| Pryor Cashman |
| RatnerPrestia |
| Reed Smith |
| Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office |
| Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP |
| Santangelo Law Offices |
| Schwegman Lundberg |
| Scully Scott |
| Setter Roche |
| Sheridan Ross |
| Stass & Halsey |
| Steptoe & Johnson |
| Sterne Kessler |
| Sughrue Mion |
| Swanson & Bratschun |
| Vedder Price |
| Wenderoth |
| Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP |
| Winston & Strawn LLP |
| Wolf Greenfield |
| Workman Nydegger |
First of the 2016 Tote Boards posted
The 2016 Design Patent Toteboard has been posted.
The response periods for the 2016 Utility Patent and 2016 Trademark toteboards is being extended from January 20 to January 23.
Several well-known firms that do trademark prosecution have not yet responded. If you know someone at one of these firms, you might want to pass along a reminder to them. These include:
- K&L Gates
- Leydig Voit
- Banner & Witcoff
- Head, Johnson & Kachigian
- Antionette M Tease PLLC
- Andrus Intellectual Property Law
- Lee & Hayes PLLC
- Chernoff Vilhauer LLP
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Alston & Bird LLP
- Arent Fox LLP
- Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Fross Zelnick
Tomorrow will be a federal holiday
In the EFS-Web listserv, alert listserv member Michele Cimbala points out that tomorrow will be a federal holiday in the District of Columbia for purposes of filings at the USPTO.
You can see this on the USPTO web site.
Anything that was due to be filed tomorrow, January 20, 2017 will be timely if filed the following Monday, January 23, 2017.
USPTO tackling the “balaclava problem” (part 2)
In the previous blog article I described the “balaclava problem” and gave an example of a real-life trademark application presenting this problem. In that blog article I described one of the two ways that the USPTO is trying to attack the “balaclava problem”. In this blog article I describe a second way that the USPTO is trying to attack this problem.
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