Patents as Illustrations for Best Selling Literature Here is something different; a departure from the day-to-day, utilitarian concerns of intellectual property protection. The German artists Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus have recognized the world’s 7 million patent applications and 22 million interconnecting prior art references as a rich tapestry from which to pluck complex […]
Rembrandts in the Attic: Utilizing University Patents To Create Entrepreneurship and Jobs In the FY2011 budget announcement last week, the Obama Administration proposed a program to bring to market some of the over one million patents held by Universities and Colleges. Called IMPACT- Innovation Model Program For Accelerating The Commercialization of Technologies- a vast majority […]
Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies Since its official purchase by Wham-O in 1957 over 200 million “WHAM-O Frisbee Pluto Platter Flying Saucer” have been sold, now more commonly known as Frisbee’s. Beginning as an activity that gained popularity during the Great Depression, Walter Fredrick “Fred” Morrison and his initial investor Warren […]
Patent Illustration Attorney Vendor Relations with 3D CAD Patent Illustrations & Drawing Formats We frequently encounter documents sent in by our clients, with images of 3D CAD models and screen captures of working 3D CAD models. IP professionals often do not ask inventors for these sophisticated 3D files seen in their PDF because they cannot […]
Legal Advantage appoints David Hemperly to Vice President of Business Development We are excited to announce that David Hemperly has been promoted as Vice President of Business Development, based in the company’s Bethesda, Maryland headquarters. Hemperly will assume business development and marketing responsibilities for the company’s award winning patent illustration, prior art search services, patent […]
Looking forward to 2010 Last week, we conducted our annual meeting to review 2009 and unveil 2010 plans. Our teams from all of our offices joined us in pushing forward the new plans for 2010. But first, we celebrated our victories from 2009. This was a record year in terms of picking up new clients, […]
Recession For Technology Over? There has been a flurry of pronouncements by economists and think tanks that the recession is over for the Tech Sector. After a year of being down by 8.6%, Forrester is calling for a growth of 6.8%. A welcome relief to many in the patent space as well. Our own informal […]
An overdue acknowledgement I wanted to thank Raj Malik from Network Solutions for inspiring us to put a blog on our corporate website. Raj is in-house counsel at Network Solutions. He is also an accomplished speaker on social media issues, internet marketing and obviously issues impacting in-house counsels. We use many of the suggestions outlined […]
Robert McDonnell speaks to the DC chapter of The Innovative Entrepreneur Yesterday the new Governor-Elect of VA, Robert McDonnell, came and spoke to the Charter Members at The Innovative Entrepreneur DC (TiE-DC) Chapter. (TiE is a great organization for local entrepreneurs and businesses. It was formerly known as The Indus Entrepreneur until last year. More […]
Happy New Years ! Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year from all of us at Legal Advantage!!! Thank you for your business in 2009, we are grateful for our customers – who make our work satisfying and exciting! We look forward to serving the legal industry in 2010 and contributing to all of […]