BRIEFS ARCHIVE MVS Briefs, our quarterly newsletter, offers the latest information in patent, trademark, and copyright cases.
MVS Briefs April 2006 Use E-mail Wisely What's the Rule for Using Trademarks in Internet Advertising? WIPO Offers Trademark Registration Renewal Online Subtle But Potentially Valuable IP Search Before You File Dispelling Patent Myths and Misconceptions
MVS Briefs December 2005 Injunction Standards in Patent Cases Under Review USPTO Received Record Number of Applications for 2005 PCT Undergoes Reform Too Eigth Circuit Ruling Narrows Fair Use Doctrine Federal Circuit Clarifies Conception and Application Skepticism Surrounds New Patent Agent Degree Program IP Vocabulary
MVS Briefs August 2005 Plan in Place to Reform U.S. Patent System Clarifying Merck: An Outline of the Decision Future Roadblocks for Cyber-Pirates Squatters Author or Inventor USPTO Offers Price Break for Electronic Filing
MVS Briefs April-May 2005 CREATE Act Promotes Cooperative Research Patent Model Museum Preserves Early Innovations BlackBerry Fight Gets Juicy Battling "Gener-icide" Employee Confidentiality: Why It Is So Important and How to Get It
MVS briefs December 2004 Patent Office Restuctures increases fees Nanotechnology the Next Wave PIPRA Expedites Agricultural Innovation Unconventional Trademarks
MVS Briefs April/May 2004 The Development of Digital Rights Management Definition - Continuation Application What determines 'small entity' status? Provisional U.S. Patent Applications: Facts versus Myths Trademark Searches as Risk Management International Notes
MVS Briefs JAN/FEB 2004 A Patent Fight Behind the First Flight Library of Congress Further Defines DMCA False Advertising Bayer v. Housey Continued “A Patent Fight Behind the First Flight”
MVS Briefs Issue Five 2003 PCT undergoes more changes Trademark owners getting duped Preparing America for the Madrid protocol New uses for DMCA's anti-circumvention provision Patent statistics Judge Rader to speak at the IIPLA annual conference
MVS Briefs Issue Four 2003 State presides over infringement trials Are you paying too much in patent fees? Patent stats Fields made of dreams Diluting Dilution Iowa legislature considering Intellectual Property counterfeiting bill Priority Date
MVS Briefs Issue Three 2002 Famous trademarks may become public domain What are generic marks? The "Sony Bono" ACT: Legitimate or unconstitutional? Eldred et al v. Ashcroft Trade dress protection and functionality History of patent protection in the United States No more chapter II? Patents on higher life forms denied in Canada
MVS Briefs Issue Two 2002 Deposit Business Method Patents Publication of Patent Applications Dilution Festo Decision
MVS Briefs Issue One 2002 How to select a trademark copyright notice for web pages and software products possible infringement now what? - Get an opinion Intellectual property 101 Recent court decisions may affect you documenting your invention

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