Canada Joins the Madrid Protocol
Canada Joins the Madrid Protocol For decades, Canada remained a holdout to the international trade-mark registration system known informally as the Madrid Protocol. The Madrid Protocol has been in operation ...
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Premium Processing for FY 2020 Cap-Subject Petitions
Premium processing will be offered in a two-phased approach during the FY 2020 cap season so USCIS can best manage the premium processing requests without fully suspending it as in ...
What are Punitive Damages?
What exactly are punitive damages? We’ve all heard of them before, but what exactly are “punitive damages”? According to the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, punitive damages are “awarded ...
USPTO Improving Consistency
Patent Office Takes Steps Towards Improving Consistency of Analysis of Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Patent subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. 101 has been the subject of much attention since the ...
3 Tips for Employment Law Compliance
Employment Law Compliance: Three Tips for Your Company Given that Virginia (and Maryland and the District of Columbia follow the “at-will” principle of employment, it can be tempting for employers ...
Tainted Applications Prompts USPTO Action
Thousands of Tainted Foreign-Based Applications Prompt a USPTO Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Require Non-U.S. Applicants to Hire U.S. Attorneys Responding to a recent flood of filings by foreign-based applicants — ...
Apple Pushes Software Update to Avoid China iPhone Ban
Dragon Wang, a Beijing-based intellectual property lawyer at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig is quoted in an article from Nikkei’s Asian Review. Read more.
China’s New Draft Patent Law Has Innovation at Heart
Erick Robinson, Partner at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, Beijing, and author of China Patent Blog dissects the recently published Draft of the Patent Law Amendments, and discusses the good, the ...
Breaking Brexit News for EU Trademark Registration Owners
Owners of European Union trademark registrations have had cause for concern about whether their EU registrations, which presently extend to every EU member country including Great Britain, will continue to ...
Trademarks – Protect Your Brand!
Trademarks are a protection for your brand, in that they protect what consumers perceive as the source of the goods or services that you provide. It is how companies or ...