Dr. Dariush Adli
Strengthening Protection for Your Ideas Through Overlapping IP
Most business owners are generally aware of intellectual property and the legal protections it affords to different aspects of their business. However, in my encounters with the business community I am often surprised that most businesses, especially small and startups, are unaware of the power of overlapping IP to strengthen and enhance protection for their…
Intellectual Property
Briefly, the term intellectual property is an umbrella of rights that include patents (utility and design), trademarks (trade name, logo or trade dress), and copyrights. Patents afford protection for ideas that are useful, novel and non-obvious. There are typically three types of patents that concern most businesses; utility patents, which protect the use, function and…
Homemade Inventions Deserve Patents, Too
Some people still believe that patents can only be issued for exotic and high-tech inventions. However, U.S. patent law does not require that a new device, product or process resemble something from a science fiction movie; a useful modification or improvement of an existing device may also be worthy of patent protection. A patentable device…
The Legal Profession Prepares for President Trump
There is palpable sense of anxiety and confusion among lawyers and legal scholars on how to respond to the new political order, as the President Trump is sworn in and his administration prepares to begin its work. Many lawyers, who took an active role during the campaign in opposition to candidate Trump, have chosen to…
The DTSA
In the most consequential Intellectual Property development of 2016, the Federal government has enacted a brand new federal trade secrets law, known as Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). This means that now all four branches of Intellectual Property (Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secrets) are protected under Federal law and can be brought in Federal…
How Should Trump Pick the Next Supreme Court Justice?
One of the most hotly debated issues in the recent Presidential election was filling the Supreme Court vacancy created by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year. During the campaign, candidate Trump promised to fill the vacancy with a jurist that is close in judicial philosophy to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. …
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