Tax Day flyer

Tax Day and Patents


The only guarantees in life are death and taxes.  Tax day is upon us once again and odds are you are one of the millions of tax-paying Americans.…

Aesthetic Mask

Patent of the Day: Mask for Administering Anesthetics


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1906, Albert Rousseau was granted U.S.…

System of Signaling Patent

Patent of the Day: System of Signaling


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1903, Nikola Tesla was granted U.S.…

Vermin Killer Patent

Patent of the Day: Improvement in Methods of Killing Vermin


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1875, Titus S. Church was granted U.S.…

Apparatus for Washing Disinfecting and Drying Patent

Patent of the Day: Apparatus for Washing, Disinfecting, and Drying


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1904, Louis Etienne Barbe was granted…

Waking People from Sleep Patent

Patent of the Day: Device for Waking Persons from Sleep


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1882, Samuel S. Applegate was granted…

Safety Pin Patent

Patent of the Day: Dress Pin (Safety Pin)


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1849, Walter Hunt was granted U.S.…

Military Vehicle Patent

Patent of the Day: Military Vehicle Body


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1942, Byron Q. Jones was granted U.S.…

Dress Length patent

Patent of the Day: Method of Obtaining the Correct Lengths of Skirts


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1909, Emma Austen Howard was granted…

Kylie Jenner

Kylie Minogue Wins Trademark Suit Against Kylie Jenner


A name is a powerful thing, especially in the entertainment industry. Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue knows first-hand how important a…

Glass Bottom Boat Patent

Patent of the Day: Glass Bottom Boat


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1904, Louis Larson was granted U.S.…

Shoe Tree Patent

Patent of the Day: Shoe Tree


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1905, William C. Benkert was granted…

Intellectual Property Court Decision

Can Laches be Used as a Defense in Patent Infringement Cases?


On March 21, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a 7-1 decision, delivered by Justice Alito, in SCA Hygiene Products AB v. First…

Mariners Compass Patent

Patent of the Day: Mariner’s Compass


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1906, William Thomson and Francis Wood…

Piano Frame Patent

Patent of the Day: Piano Frame


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1885, C.F. Theodore Steinway was…

Cheerleaders and Pom-poms

Supreme Court Copyright Decision: Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands


On Wednesday, March 22nd, the Supreme Court of the United States gave its opinion in the copyright case, Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands,…

Egg Hatching Apparatus Patent

Patent of the Day: Egg Hatching Apparatus


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1843, Napoleon E. Guerin was granted…

Twine Tying Patent

Patent of the Day: Twine Tying Mechanism


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1966, Henry F. Keates was granted U.S.…

White Car Mirror

Alphabet’s Waymo Seeking to Halt Uber’s Self-Driving Car


Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary now handling Google’s self-driving car project, filed a lawsuit in February that alleged Uber stole vital proprietary…

Artificial Teeth Patent

Patent of the Day: Manufacture of Artificial Teeth or the Like


Suiter Swantz IP takes a look back at past inventions and inventors with our Patent Of The Day. On this day in 1905, Frédéric Adolphe Jules Cournand…