DuPage County Bar Association President Thomas Else, appointed Eric Waltmire as the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Law & Practice Committee.
Eric plans to work with committee vice-chair, Sean McCumber, among others, to organize an intellectual property law seminar in the first quarter of 2009. “There is a sizable and growing group of intellectual property lawyers [...]
Eric R. Waltmire, attorney with the Law Office of Randall T. Erickson, presented a seminar on “What the Civil and Business Practitioner Needs to Know About Trademarks and Trademark Law” at the a joint meeting of the Business Committee and the Civil Law and Practice Committee of the DuPage County Bar Association.
The presentation was held [...]
Eric Waltmire of the Law Office of Randall T. Erickson is the lead articles editor for the October 2008 edition of the DuPage County Bar Association’s legal journal, The Brief [link]. Eric compiled four intellectual property law articles to complete the intellectual property edition of The Brief.
The articles included in the IP edition are:
“Designer” Jewelry [...]
Venture capitalist David S. Rose’s, speaking at TED, talks about the 10 things you need to know when pitching a venture capitalist. His tips are relevant to anyone giving a power point presentation. See the presentation here or http://tinyurl.com/3noe89.
When your proposed mark is merely discriptive you have at least two alternatives to registering the mark as a word mark on the Primary Register. Merely descriptive marks cannot be registered without proof of secondary meaning—i.e. proof that the mark has become distinctive as applied to the applicant’s goods or services in commerce. Trademark Manual [...]
The USPTO announced that it is launching a program to allow an Examiner interview before first action. Here’s the process. First the applicant requests a first-action interview. The examiner conducts a prior art search and provides the applicant a pre-interview communication. This is a condensed preview of objections or rejections proposed against the claims. Then, [...]
“In Corporacion Habanos, S.A. v. Guantanamera Cigars Co., Opposition No. 91152248 (February 29, 2008), the U.S. Trademark trial and Appeal Board sustained an opposition to registration of that mark”GUANTANAMERA” for cigars on the ground that it is primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive under Section 2(e)(3). . . ” [link]
The fact is that the pace of technological innovation, Gutierrez explains, means that Microsoft realizes it now has to work with others. “At a time when inventions were building upon each other with such rapidity as to render obsolete a company’s most far-sighted product development strategy, it was becoming obvious that the only way to [...]