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In Fort Worth, there's a race car-themed restaurant called Ricky Bobby. In Austin, Tex., there's a Bettie Page-themed hair salon.

Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP , a leading Southern California intellectual property law firm, today announced that its client, Vederi, LLC, won an appeal against Google, Inc. in a patent infringement case involving Google's Street View service.

"While much of the recent attention regarding GW has been associated with our childhood epilepsy and cancer pain development programs, we continue to make great progress with other pipeline programs, further demonstrating the breadth of our proprietary cannabinoid product development platform to yield interesting and therapeutically beneficial ... (more)

Back in 1988, Christopher Rudy filed a patent application for a fishing hook that is both colored and translucent.

The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defence of trademarks in cyberspace, the United Nation's intellectual property body warned on Monday - PHOTO: AFP [GENEVA] The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defence of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned on ... (more)

Anyone with an iPhone loves how easy it is to use one. Zooming into their pictures by using their fingers, or tapping the screen twice to zoom in on a picture or page.

Amid great fanfare the European Patent Office has recently released its annual report , proclaiming another record year for the office: an all-time high in the number of filings and a 2.8% increase on the 2012 figures.

Looks like the Worlds Inc v. Activision case has been dismissed, at least for now.

On March 8th, The Economist published an article deriding both so-called "patent trolls" and "software patents" as being impediments to innovation in the United States.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would protect funding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, since Congress has diverted more than $1.1 billion from the office's user fees for other purposes in the past 20 years.

The standard justification for patents is that they are necessary to allow inventors to recoup R & D costs in the presence of low-cost copying.

Texas A&M University School of Law seeks applicants for one or more Visiting Professors for one or two semesters in the 2014-15 academic year.

During the workday Bennett , founder and managing partner of Global Patent Group, a life sciences-focused patent law firm, also can be found working at a "stand-up" desk whose surface is several feet off the ground.

On April 4th and 5th, the University of San Diego School of Law will host PatCon 4 , the largest annual conference for patent law scholars.

DuPont is claiming victory in a lawsuit over a patent on an enzyme to help produce ethanol.

Judge's Choice: The judging panel selected Matt Zinn for this special recognition because he fused his business strategy with business results in a remarkable way.

March 14, 2014 - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., author of the "Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013," said the committee will begin consideration of the legislation March 27. "America's patent system is the envy of the world and an engine for job creation," Leahy said in a statement Thursday.

Frances Arnold, whose process for accelerating the evolution of enzymes that has contributed to significant advancements in science, medicine, chemicals, and energy, has been inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for 2014.

Topics to be covered at this meeting: - The Commercial Value of Patents - Conditions of Patentability - Obtaining a Patent - The Scope of a Patent - Construction and Claims - Identifying and Documenting Inventions - Infringement - Litigation - Principles of Licensing - Patents as Property - Patent Portfolio Management THE VALUE OF ATTENDING THIS ... (more)

To mitigate the threat of "Apple picking" - a term law enforcement officials sometimes use to refer to cell phone theft -- Apple's next iPhone may come with "attack detection mode."