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Value Of A Patent System

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power “[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and…


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‘Jersey Boys’ Creators Guilty of Copyright Infringement

A Nevada federal jury returned a verdict against the creators of the Tony award winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys finding that they committed copyright infringement. Writers Marshall Brickman and…


Software Patent Considerations for Startups in Light of USPTO McRO, Inc. Memo

We talk to new and small business owners all the time about intellectual property in the earliest phases of business development. In a “first-to-file” world, the patent portion of that discussion…