The HIPLegal partners on strategies when a competitor comes out with a product that appears to use your patents, trade secrets, trademarks or other property.
General IP
HIPerspectives Episode 18: Licensing — The Devil’s in the Details
The HIPLegal partners explore strategies to consider when negotiating for a license to someone else’s IP rights.
Making Your IP Work For You
If intellectual property has not been a priority for your company, you may be leaving value on the table. By developing an approach to IP that advances your business goals, you can extract more value and solidify your competitive position.
HIPerspectives Episode 13: Know Your Source
The HIPLegal partners identify some of the pitfalls and best practices for navigating licenses associated with open source software.
HIPerspectives Episode 10: Happy Birthday to Us? HIPLegal on Copyrights
Continuing the IP Basics track of HIPerspectives, the HIPLegal partners explain how you might already have copyright protection without knowing it, how much creativity is needed to protect a work with a copyright, and what monkeys have to do with copyrights.
HIPerspectives Episode 7: Beauty and functionality: Two sides of the same coin
While functionality may be protected by a utility patent, the lesser known design patent can protect the ornamentality – or beauty – of an object. Episode 7 introduces the concept of design patents in the continuing IP basics track of HIPerspectives.
HIPerspectives Episode 5: What’s in a Name?
The HIPLegal partners explore trademarks in this episode of HIPerspectives.
The Value of Hindsight: “If I only knew then what I know now…”
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Patent lawyers reading this may protest, but rest assured I am not talking about patent obviousness. Hindsight is incredibly useful if we can learn from past experiences, figure out what could have been done differently, and use that knowledge to head off or drive future outcomes in a more positive way.
We share here our insights from litigation that can help you better position for or withstand IP litigation.