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Growing, Tech-forward Law Firm Founders Legal® Names New Managing Partner

ByElizabeth Weibush

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMAR. 2, 2022 Contact: Lauren HawksworthMarketing Administrator404-592-5182lhawksworth@founderslegal.com Growing, Tech-forward Law Firm Founders Legal® Names New Managing Partner Founders Legal®, the tech-forward, distributed law firm founded in Atlanta, announces Yuri Eliezer as the Managing Partner to lead the firm through its next expansion phase. The firm was founded in 2014 to provide specialized legal advisory…

Product Development - Patent Search - Freedom to Operate
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What is a freedom to operate search and opinion?

ByElizabeth Weibush

Freedom to Operate Search (FTO) What is a freedom to operate search and opinion? A freedom to operate (FTO) study is usually performed on a finalized product design before its release in order to determine if the product, or any of its components, would infringe on any enforceable patents. Even if the product being studied…

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Distributed law firm Founders Legal® adds three new practitioners.

ByElizabeth Weibush

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFEB. 21, 2022 Contact: Lauren HawksworthMarketing Administrator404-592-5182lhawksworth@founderslegal.com Distributed law firm Founders Legal® adds three new practitioners Greg Gurshman, Special Counsel, Former USPTO Examiner Kennington Groff, Attorney Megan McLoughlin, Attorney Founders Legal is excited to announce that attorneys Kennington Groff, Megan McLoughlin, and technical advisor Greg Gurshman have joined the firm. The three…

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Press Release: 2022 Super Lawyers® Georgia Rising Stars® List

ByElizabeth Weibush

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFEB. 14, 2022 Contact: Lauren HawksworthMarketing Administrator404-592-5182lhawksworth@founderslegal.com Founders Legal Attorneys Selected to 2022 Super Lawyers® Georgia Rising Stars® List Yuri L. Eliezer, Managing Partner Andrei D. Tsygankov, Partner Designation Presented to Only 2.5% of Attorneys in the State ATLANTA, GA, USA, February 14, 2022/EINPresswire.com/ — Atlanta-based Founders Legal® is pleased to announce that…

How do you protect yourself as an influencer?
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Patent Rights: Assignors Transferring Rights and Infringing on Assigned Patents

ByElizabeth Weibush

Patent Rights: Assignors Transferring Rights and Infringing on Assigned Patents In June 2021’s Minerva Surgical Inc. v Hologic case, the US Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) ruled that assignor estoppel is limited and may allow a previous assignor, under specific circumstances, to challenge the validity of patents they have subsequently reassigned. This article will explore the SCOTUS…

Software Protection
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How to Protect Software as Intellectual Property

ByElizabeth Weibush

When you’ve invested a significant amount of time and resources into software tech, it’s important to understand how to properly protect it from the competition.

Five forms of intellectual property and legal protections to consider include trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and non-disclosure agreements.

This guide will provide you the basics on each form of protection from scopes, lengths, and confidentiality considerations.

Restoring the America Invents Act
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Newly Proposed Legislature Could Dramatically Change the Patent System

ByElizabeth Weibush

A new proposal from Congressman Thomas Massie of the 4th district of Kentucky seeks to revert our patent system from a ‘First to File’ system to a ‘First to Invent’ system. This would allow patent applicants to submit a sworn affidavit back-dating their patent priority date to the day they claim they actually invented. A patent priority date is important, as only the inventors with the earliest priority date are entitled to patent protection.

Restoring the America Invents Act
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Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2021 – Diversifying the Patent System

ByJohn DeStefano

On September 21, 2021, Senators Patrick Leahy and Thomas Tillis introduced the Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2021. According to Leahy’s official press release, the proposed bill “requires the Patent Office’s satellite offices to conduct outreach to increase participation in the patent system by women, people of color, military veterans, individual inventors, and other groups that are underrepresented in the system.”

Restoring the America Invents Act
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Restoring the America Invents Act – Proposed Title 35 Changes

ByJohn DeStefano

Restoring the America Invents Act On September 29, 2021, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Restoring the America Invents Act. According to Senator Leahy’s official press release, the goal of the bill is “to address problems for small businesses and ordinary Americans caused by poor-quality patent.” To promote clarity of the…

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