Deceptive Advertising Charges Against Fake News Site
In the case of the Federal Trade Commission vs. Clickbooth, an affiliate network, the FTC won. Clickbooth must pay $2 million to the FTC as a settlement. The...
PCT PATENT APPLICATIONS
An international Patent Application called a Patent Cooperation Treaty or PCT Patent Application is the most cost effective way to ensure International protection for an invention. If an...
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) is the legal definition used to encompass inventions and artistic works, including ideas. Anything that’s practical on a commercial level can be considered IP. This...
Design Patent FAQ´s: IP Attorney Howard M. Cohn Helps Inventors Protect Product Features, Rights
How an invention looks can be as important as what it does. Over the past few decades, the plethora of content that falls under “Intellectual Property” has radically changed...
Why You Should Copyright Your Software and Online Applications
Copyright law is the most important legal protection available to software publishers. Here's why. One of the best ways for software authors to protect their work is to register...
Challenges To Enforceable Patents
There hasn’t been a reform to United States patent law as considerable as the American Invests Act (AIA) since 1952. One of the AIA’s most noteworthy components is...
Dangers of Innovative Trade Secrets & Design Concepts – Protection by Patent Attorney Howard M. Cohn
Are you protecting the innovative secrets that set you apart from the competition? Ideas, industry trade secrets, and innovative design concepts are some of the most important factors that...
COPYRIGHTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
An important fact to know is that if you post photographs or articles that you find on the internet on your website, Facebook or Linked-in page, you are...
Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Patents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), part of the United States Commerce Department, has published a Federal Register titled Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for...
Software and Intellectual Property
Despite the protestations of some, software is patentable in in the United States. There are some jurisdictions that do not allow for the patenting of software or computer...
