Apple recently sued Samsung, claiming that the Korean manufacturer’s mobile phones and tablets infringe the trademark rights related to the iPhone and iPad line of products. I have written extensively about Apple’s unique and sophisticated approach to securing its design-related innovations with overlapping intellectual property rights. As I’ve mentioned in those writings, very few manufacturers [...]
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Apple Asserts iPhone and iPad Shape Trademarks
April 25, 2011Top 10 Places for Tech Jobs…And Their Patents
September 17, 2009U.S. News and World Report lists the Top Ten Places for Tech Jobs. The list includes: Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Huntsville, New Yok, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington. It’s an interesting list, and I thought I would do a patent search for inventors based out of these cities. Here are the results I obtained [...]
More Shape Trademarks
September 16, 2009Special thanks to my friend in Athens, Ga., Marc Lazar, for pointing out additional shape trademark possibilities. I have expanded the archive of these fascinating products. Note: The product image is followed by the issued trademark.
Vote For Your Favorite Shape Trademark
September 10, 2009My research has led me to a somewhat exotic area: 3-D product shape trademarks. These are rare but powerful forms of intellectual property. They are usually reserved for product shape designs that have iconic characteristics. Their rarity suggests that the average company does not typically invest as much in product design as they should. Here [...]
Google Obtains Design Patent For Its Website
September 4, 2009For some time now, I have noticed how Google has obtained several design patents for its website and user interface. See below. They also recently applied for and obtained a new design patent for the layout of search results. Click here to see it. A design patent is not your typical patent, and it only [...]
Back to School
September 1, 2009Attention student innovators. If you have had a revelation for a product that would make dorm life better, visit this site to enter a contest: Students of Invention Contest Just think “lava lamp”.
To the Folks at Twitter: Use Trademarks to Monetize Your Traffic
June 13, 2009I just read an article on a packaging blog that mentions how companies are adding their Twitter ID on product packaging. I agree with the article’s conclusion that it’s a smart marketing move that allows a company using this strategy to stay in touch with customers. Pepsi, for example, added “twitter.com/pepsiraw” to its Pepsi Raw [...]
Recession is the Perfect Time to Innovate
May 22, 2009“Recessions signal end of an era; out goes the old way of doing things and room is made for the entrepreneurs to come with new innovative ideas.” This is according to Kanwal Rekhi, a legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and graduate of Michigan Technological University’s electrical engineering program. Dr. Rekhi made this intriguing statement in an [...]
