Not-so-clever “iconization” is no substitute for smart, savvy branding, as many companies have discovered. Columnist Naseem Javed has had just about enough of this iTrend, and he's calling out overly cute marketers who fail to iDentify something original. ...
Believe it or not, your customers can easily be exposed to abuses of your brand online, which can cause you to lose the goodwill you have established in the market. Organizations can take steps to mitigate some of the damage those abuses can cause, and...
Third Wave Technologies and Digene Corp. are back in court, this time for a dispute over a patent covering a single type of the human papilloma virus. Digene is suing Third Wave, which denies that it's in violation of the patent, in the U.S. District...
The Democratic Party now controls both houses of Congress, and it was reflected in a strong vote in the House of Representatives in favor of lifting President Bush's restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The vote, however, was still well short of...
Corporate officers and directors have been found personally liable for IP infringement if they intentionally, actively, and knowingly assist in the corporation's infringement. To minimize those risks, Madison attorney Gina Carter, in this inaugural edition of IP Law, explains the circumstances and scenarios that lead...
A United States District Court in Wisconsin has affirmed a 2006 damage verdict against Abbott Laboratories for infringing on a patent held by Innogenetics, a Belgian-based biopharmaceutical firm. In the fall of 2006, a Wisconsin jury had awarded $7 million to Innogenetics. ...
Tangling with UPS manufacturers wasn't a very good idea for former JT Packard president Jeff Cason. After settling with two organizations that sued JT Packard for copyright infringement, Cason has left the company he founded. ...
Good people want to do the right thing when they leave a company, observes columnist James Carlini, but sometimes their employers won't allow them to. In this installment of Carlini's Comments, he states flatly that the two-week notice no longer is required, especially if the...
For the second time in three years, a federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Madison-based HyperPhrase Technologies, LLC. The first suit was filed against the Microsoft XP Office suite; this time, Google's AdSense and AutoLink products emerged victorious in what...
Companies that don't act to protect their trademarks, even when they are unknowingly used by entities in other regions of the country, run the risk of losing their legal rights to them, according to Madison attorney Joe Boucher. In this latest version of Early Stage,...