INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW - LIGHTSWITCH

Each quarter, our group publishes LightSwitch:  Intellectual Property Law Bulletin.  

Other publications from our group are below.

2011

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
Volume Four; No. 2    July 18, 2011

This edition contains the following articles:

-Stanford v. Roche: A Cautionary Tail for Employers

-Intellectual Property is 80% of the Value of a Business!

-Avoiding Confrontations with Licensing Firms

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
Volume Four; No. 2    March 29, 2011

This edition contains the following articles:

- World's Largest Patent Troll Finishes Cookbook, Files Lawsuit

- Design Patents

- Why Should We Care About Alternative Energy and Going Green?

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
1st Quarter Supplemental    January 25, 2011

This edition contains the following articles:

-My company has no intellectual property... or does it?

-Brain Child

-What the Librarian of Congress has to do with your cell phone

2010

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
Volume Three; No. 3    October 1, 2010

This edition contains the following articles:

- Shaking Up Trademarks

- What’s a Bilski?

- How Does Cotton Affect Patent Rights in Brazil?

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
Volume Three; No. 2    June 29, 2010

This edition contains the following articles:

- The Patent Reform Act of 2010

- Notable IP Group Activities

- The Transformative Obama "Hope" Poster Fair Use or an Infringing Derivative Work?

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
Volume Three; No. 1  - April 1, 2010

This edition contains the following articles:

-Further Affiant Sayeth Not...
-Wiping Out Patent Infringement Damages - The Reexamination Strategy
-Mediation and Asymmetric Mis-information

2009

LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
Volume Two; No. 4
 This edition contains the following articles:

- Court Applies "Reasonableness"
- Standard to Invention Assignment
- I Lost Fifty Pounds Using This Product!!!
- Why Should Cash-Strapped Start-Up Companies Spend Money on IP Attorneys? 
 
LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
October 2009
This edition contains the following articles:

- South Carolina and The Wind Energy Debate
- Virtual Mediation
- Damages in Patent Cases
- Liability Risks for Corporate Networking Websites 
 
LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
July 1, 2009
This edition contains articles related to:

- Trademark Protection in NC Under State Statutes
- Using a Trademark in Commerce
- Damages in Patent Cases, Part 2 of 3
 
LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
March 31, 2009
This edition contains articles related to:

- The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (a.k.a. PRO-IP Act)
- Damages in Patent Cases, Part 1 of 3
- Non-traditional Trademarks and Servicemarks

Other Publications

Choosing a Trademark
By Todd Serbin - Columbia

Nexsen Pruet Intellectual Property attorney Todd Serbin's presentation called "Choosing a Trademark" covers topics such as fanciful marks, arbitrary marks, suggestive marks, and descriptive marks.

I wrote it; I own it!... Don't I?
By Michael Mann - Columbia - August 4, 2009

Ownership of Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, Know-how and Trademarks

South Carolina and the Wind Energy Debate
By John Perkins - Greenville

The environmental arena has begun to look like a game of Jeopardy: there are answers of every sort and only a few people asking the right questions. So, what should we be asking about wind energy?

The Famous Marks Doctrine: A Call for American Courts to Grant Trademark Rights to Famous Foreign Marks
By Jeff Reichard - Greensboro - Wake Forest Intellectual Property Law Journal - February 5, 2009

Nexsen Pruet's Jeff Reichard authors an article about trademark law for the Wake Forest Intellectual Property Law Journal.

Real Estate Developers and their Intellectual Property
By Michael Mann - Columbia - February 1, 2009

There is something magical about turning a parcel of raw land into a place where people live and raise their families, where businesses go about their business, or where people return for their vacations year after year.... A developer’s deed protects the real property. What protects the intellectual property?

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