by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Jul 10, 2026 | News
The secret is out and we couldn’t be prouder! 🎉 Big congratulations to attorney Jordan Block on being installed as the new Sponsorship Director for the Pinellas Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers! We get to see Jordan’s exceptional talent...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Jul 1, 2026 | Article
Are you using Honeycrisp apples to make your apple pie this fourth of July? I bet you didn’t know they were patented! In the 1960s, David Bedford began crossbreeding apples to get to the delicious Honeycrisp. The patent was granted in 1991, and the apple has grown in...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Jun 22, 2026 | Article
Copyright protection arises automatically the moment an original work is created and fixed in a tangible medium of expression. This automatic protection, often referred to as common law copyright, exists as soon as the work can be perceived, reproduced, or...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Jun 15, 2026 | News
Strong trademarks are fanciful, arbitrary, or suggestive. Fanciful marks are invented words that only have meaning in relation to their goods and services. An example of a fanciful trademark would be Exxon® for petroleum. Arbitrary words are real words that have no...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Jun 12, 2026 | Article
Patent Maintenance fees are exclusively for utility patent grants and are periodic fees paid to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to keep the utility patent valid during the course of the grant. An important distinction is that design patents and plant...
