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Jordan Block Installed to PFAWL Board!
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 and drive...
Have you ever heard of the Golden Age of Innovation?
The centennial of the America's independence marked the beginning of The United States Golden Age of Innovation. The affordability of the U.S. patent system allowed independent inventors to solve problems across a wide range of industries, while expanding federal...
The Intellectual Property in Your Pie 🥧
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...
Do you have to register your work with the Copyright Office?
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...
What Makes Your Trademak Strong?
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...
What is a patent maintenance fee and when are they due?
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...