On this day in 1846, the first patent to a Saxophone was issued to Antoine Joseph Sax. Born Adolphe Sax in 1814, he was awarded French Patent #3226 for his novel apparatus illustrated below in a family of 8 different embodiments. Over the years, Sax was attributed to producing and improving upon a number of different instruments. However, none of them gained the same level of acceptance and commercial success as the Saxophone.#Saxophone #patent #omnilegalgroup #internationalpatentlaw
June 21st is International Yoga Day. In 2014, a UN declaration was issued with support by 177 nations who cosponsored the resolution (the highest number ever for any such measure). This year, 72 students and teachers have traveled to the United States from India and will be performing yogic exercises at the United Nations Headquarters to honor the occasion. #patent #namaste #omnilegalgroup #international #yoga #internationalyogaday
SUPREME COURT RULING: The Asian-American rock band originally denied registration for their band name The Slants prevails in their effort to gain U.S. trademark registration. They were originally denied by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for violating the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act. This part of the Trademark Act denies federal registrations for trademarks comprising immoral, deceptive or scandalous matter or that might disparage persons or groups or bring them into contempt or disrepute. In what is certain to be a controversial decision, the Supreme Court today found this to be a violation of free speech. This ruling will most certainly open the door for applicants seeking Federal protection for derogatory marks such as the Redskin football team who in 2014 had their trademarks cancelled for violating the disparagement clause. #trademarks #omnilegalgroup #SupremeCourt #USPTO #lanhamact #disparagementclause
On this day in 1777, the stars and stripes were adopted by the Second Continental Congress as the official Flag of the United States. This version of old glory has numerous legends tracing its origins with design credits being attributed to Francis Hopkinson and Betsy Ross. To this day, neither has been corroborated. In honor of Flag Day, we solute the inventors who have incorporate the stars and stripes into their patented designs. #patents #USPTO #flagday #america #oldglory#thestarsandstripes #omnilegalgroup
Hiring an attorney can be a daunting and difficult decision. You are aware it could require a significant financial commitment as well as a commitment of time since most legal matters are not quickly disposed of. How do you know you have the right person for the job?
Often people will challenge the validity or the use of a patent or trademark so you want to make sure that the Intellectual Property attorney that you select can also defend your work.
Finding the right attorney for you can seem overwhelming but it is possible to get the right person for the job. Using this basic checklist will get you off on the right foot.
In 1870 Thomas Adams was working with the Mexican President, Antonio López de Santa Ana to create a cheaper alternative to the then expensive rubber tire. They were using rubber from the Chicle tree. After a year of unsuccessful experiments, Adams gave up on the idea of Chicle based rubber. Instead, he recalled that Santa Ana and the population of Mexico enjoyed chewing on the chicle sap. So, he used the same chicle sap to create a marketable chewing gum that was different from the paraffin wax gum that was being sold in the United States at the time. He created the first modern chewing gum and molded them into small gumballs with colorful wrappers. The gum was a success!
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Congratulations to GlobeChat and their Founder, Kevin Strom for being selected as “Finalist – 2017 OCTANe High-Tech Innovator of The Year”. GlobeChat enables people to communicate with others anywhere in the world with video, photos, text, voice-to-text, and audio files on Android, Apple and Windows mobile devices, as well as tablets, laptops and desktops. The platform translates languages real-time within private one- to-one, private group as well as public chat environments allowing for seamless interaction – each person receives messages in their native language regardless of the language of the sender. GlobeChat offers an innovative search feature allowing a user to easily filter others globally based on age, gender, orientation, religion, political affiliation, education, career, interests, commonalities and more with the results immediately displayed on a colorful map of the world. Since launch on April 1st, 2016 GlobeChat has now spread to 152 Countries. In the first year since launch, GlobeChat has received 10 other awards in addition to this most recent one. Congratulations!
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Summertime is upon us and people everywhere are getting ready to hit the beach. Pack up your picnic lunches, your volleyballs, your beach towels, but don’t forget your chair! Beach chairs make it so much more comfortable to sit in the sand and watch the waves roll in. You can get a beach chair that reclines, one that sits high, one that sits low, or one that lies flat so you can get an even tan. Today’s patent is from an early beach chair. This one featured a footrest and a built in shade. This patent doesn’t look all that different from chairs you can purchase today!
Read MoreIn a nutshell, pluripotent stem cells can produce any type of cell, whereas tissue stem cells can only produce cells of that tissue type. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells, but as they generally do not exist in the human body after the person is five days old, working with these cells presents ethical and scarcity concerns. Tissue stem cells, on the other hand, are plentiful but only generate cells within a particular tissue line. For example, dermal fibroblasts can differentiate into any skin cell and hematopoietic progenitor cells can differentiate into any blood cell, but neither can differentiate into muscle tissue cells. Naturally, scientists tried, and succeeded, in converting these cells into pluripotent stem cells, by inducing them into that condition, hence the name. As scientists must start from something, obtaining hematopoietic progenitor cells from blood draws is much less painful to the patient than obtaining dermal fibroblasts from a skin biopsy, and hence hematopoietic progenitor cells are preferable starting materials from which to make iPS cells.
Generally speaking, when hematopoietic progenitor cells are expanded (multiplied in a lab setting), they have a tendency to differentiate (configure into a specific type of cell), which makes them less likely to accept reprogramming into iPS cells. The Cellular Dynamics researchers, however, found a way to avoid such a result, thereby allowing the researchers to harvest more hematopoietic progenitor cells from a smaller volume of blood. While beyond the scope of this article, interested readers are encouraged to discover the conditions that brought about this result via U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2017/0088818 A1. Using, essentially, a combination of conditions, inhibitors, and medium composition, the researchers were able to both expand the hematopoietic progenitor cells while still achieving reprogramming success using known reprogramming techniques (introducing exogenous episomal genetic elements or exogenous RNA genetic elements that express iPS reprogramming factors into the expanded hematopoietic progenitor cells).
More iPS cells mean more breakthroughs, and this patent application may accelerate that process as well.