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Jun 07

How Do You Choose the Right Attorney for You?

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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? The first questions you need ask yourself are basic and relevant to all legal issues: Does the attorney I’m considering specialize in the area of law that I need? All attorneys are barred through the same process and can practice any area of law, with the exception of patent law. Patent attorneys…
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Jun 07

Did You Know?

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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.…
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Jun 07

News

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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…
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May 31

Welcome Summer!

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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…
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May 12

NO EMBRYO NEEDED: Cellular Dynamics Enhances Stem Cell Methodologies

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The search to painlessly generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) is heating up, and Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. is on the leading edge. The USPTO recently published Cellular Dynamics’ patent application for “Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Small Volumes of Peripheral Blood,” which generally discloses methods for increasing the overall process efficiency of reprogramming peripheral blood cells into iPS cells.In 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…
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May 12

NEWS

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During April 2017, Omni Legal Group filed it's 500th trademark application in the United States Trademark Office. Trademarks are identifiers of source that are intended to prevent consumer confusion and they protect a brand's logo and name. In addition to our 500+ US filings, we have registered marks all over the world including places such as Australia, China and the European Union. Our clients work in a wide variety of industries including fashion designers, software developers, doctors, musicians, contractors, and chefs to name a few. Trademarks are one of the most important pieces of intellectual property that a business can…
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May 11

DID YOU KNOW?

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During the 16th century a Dutch shipmaker used heat to concentrate wine to make it easier to transport, his idea was to reconstitute it with water when he arrived at his destination. What he ultimately discovered, was that the heated wine tasted very good. The concentrated wine was called burnt wine or brandewijn in Dutch. Today, Brandy is enjoyed around the world.
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Jan 19

COPYRIGHTING A DREAM

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Selma and the Intellectual Property involving Dr. King’s famed speeches. Best Picture Oscar Nominee, Selma is a a cinematic portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legendary march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in support of the Voter Right’s Act of 1965. Despite the film’s many accolades, history buffs have been quick to raise criticism for its technically inaccurate portrayals of King’s famous speeches. In an effort to avoid violating the copyrights held by King’s estate – which have been reportedly licensed to DreamWorks and Warner Bros. for use in an upcoming film – director Ava DuVernay chose instead to…
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Nov 24

‘I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT BRAIN- WORK. WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO LIVE FOR? – SHERLOCK HOLMES

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The famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes experienced a renaissance when new breath was given to him by Robert Downey, Dr. in the Guy Richie films and, more recently, in the television shows Sherlock and Elementary. Since then, the copyright status of Detective Holmes has become a subject of much debate and, inearly 2013, scholar Leslie Klinger brought suit a to determine who indeed owned these rights. In a suit brought against the estate of the detectives creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Klinger asked the courts to rule that the characters and other elements featured in 46 short stories and 4…
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Nov 26

Copyright Law: FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT…

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The Beastie Boys are threatening to take legal action over a video set to their 1986 song “Girls.” This video depicts children building a Rube Goldberg-type machine and replaces lyrics such as “Girls — to do the dishes/ Girls — to clean up my room/” with the less offensive “Girls – to build the spaceship/ Girls — to code the new app.” The video’s creator is claiming protection under the copyright doctrine of parody which is a form of fair use while attorney’s for the Beastie Boys assert the video is a “big problem” that has a “very significant impact.”…
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