Property, intangible

a blog about ownership of intellectual property rights and its licensing

Pamela Chestek

  • The Unmentioned

    Here’s a patent assignment, in its entirety: I, JACK BENNETT, . . . do hereby sell and assign to VECTOR CORROSION TECHNOLOGIES LTD. . . . all my interest in the United States, Canada and in all other countries in and to my US, Canadian, and European applications for patents and issued U.S. patent, namely:… Continue reading

  • Broken Chain

    (Read yesterday’s post below if you haven’t yet) The court identified two breaks. The easy one was the last one – the oral assignment from Marx Toys, Inc. to the plaintiff. Of course, under § 204(a), a transfer of copyright ownership must be in writing or by operation of law. There was a second break… Continue reading

  • Can’t Break Away From Those Chains

    You have the following transactional events: Registering of copyrights for toy action figures with authorship by Louis Marx & Co. Bill of sale of Louis Marx & Co. to The Quaker Oats Company Bill of Sale of Louis Marx & Co. to Dunbee-Combex Change of Name from Dunbee-Combex to Dunbee-Combex-Marx d/b/a Louis Marx & Co.… Continue reading

  • Laid to Waste

    The always informative John Welch, TTABlog reporter, blogged on a pure trademark ownership contest at the TTAB in an opposition proceeding. It was a bit of a lengthy and confusing read, 41 pages, although the TTAB does bless us with generous double-spacing and Courier New. The case is a lesson in how not to manage… Continue reading

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  • Faithless Servant Indeed

    Asociación de Industriales de Puerto Rico v. MarketNext, Inc. is a classic trademark ownership dispute. The plaintiff, Asociación de Industriales de Puerto Rico (AIPR), also known as the Puerto Rico Manufacturer’s Association, is a trade association representing businesses in the manufacturing and service sectors in Puerto Rico. It was commonly referred to as “los Industriales”… Continue reading

  • Caught in the Crossfire

    Patently-O revisits the half-millionth design patent, the design of the Chrysler Crossfire, and its assignment history. Now pledged to the government. © 2009 Pamela Chestek Continue reading

  • Licensed Confusion

    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. v. Cinram International Inc. is, for the most part, about whether an “essential” patent in a patent pool was necessarily an infringed one (it’s not – or the license would not have said “for the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the manufacture by Licensee of CD-Discs within the Territory… Continue reading

  • If a Web Site Falls In The Woods, Is It In Use?

    John Welch pointed me to a curious new site – “USTrademarkExchange.com.” According to the home page, USTrademarkExchange.com is a new website that connects registered trademark sellers and buyers. Many industry professionals view trademarks as a unique kind of intellectual property (IP), quite different from either patents or copyrights. As as a result we have created… Continue reading

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish#Regeneration

    Wikipedia is a registered trademark, owned by Wikimedia Foundation. A New York Times article says “nearly every time Wikipedia has come to a fork in the road where the project could have chosen to impose more restrictions on who could edit what — even insist on a bit of expertise — it has chosen not… Continue reading

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  • Starfish and Spiders

    I’ve been reading The Starfish and the Spider. The premise of the book is that some organizations are centralized and top-down, which is the spider – you cut the head off and it dies. But there are decentralized, non-hierarchical organizations that are like a starfish – if you cut it in half, it becomes two… Continue reading

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