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Advertising is often thought of as a glitzy field of augmented reality. Shiny, colorful products are hawked left and right with promises to make you feel better, sleep better, live better, jump higher and generally conquer the world. Words like “natural,”...
Patterson Thuente IP Principals Jim Patterson and Tye Biasco recently won a favorable settlement for a solo artist in a copyright infringement case involving a Minnesota-based Fortune 500 retailer. Filip Zrnzević, a photographer from Belgrade, Serbia, noticed one of...
Three students from Hopkins, MN, won a Lego league championship with a small assist from Patterson Thuente IP attorneys. The Great Gatsbys — a team consisting of sixth graders Evelyn Cameron and Gavin Ferro, and seventh grader Lucian Pier — took home first...
Patterson Thuente IP Principal and registered patent attorney Brad Pedersen has authored a new article published yesterday in IP Watchdog — one of the world's leading intellectual property publications focusing on patents, innovation policy, trade secrets, copyrights...
We often discuss on this blog the various ways that creators and business owners benefit from protecting their intellectual property. Trademarks, patents and copyrights can have a tangible impact on an entity's market standing and financial resources. And a recent...
If you are an engineer or scientist, you are (hopefully) no stranger to filing patents. A patent is key to monetizing and protecting your company's intellectual property and the sole right to produce and distribute products that utilize your patented technology or...
In some trade secret disputes, the wrongdoing falls on the shoulders of an individual worker. This person might intentionally steal proprietary information or share it with a competitor in exchange for something like a lucrative job offer. However, sometimes...
For some businesses, protecting intellectual property may not be a high priority. Some reasons owners do not prioritize their IP strategy are because they think it is unnecessary or too expensive. However, this oversight can disrupt an organization in more ways than...
Protecting trade secrets requires parties to take reasonable measures to keep the information in question private. However, the phrase "reasonable measures" can seem vague and subjective, creating confusion and vulnerabilities in a business's intellectual property....
There are three requirements people must fulfill to copyright something: The work must be fixed in a permanent state. It must be an expression of an idea. The work must be creative. However, there is another requirement that may not be as explicit: copyrights can...