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BRIEFS ARCHIVE
MVS Briefs, our quarterly newsletter, offers the latest information in patent, trademark, and copyright cases.
MVS Briefs June 2010
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  • Selling Licensing Rights: Will the New System Work?
  • Murky Future for DNA Marker Patents?
  • Patent Marking Law Dramatically Changes
 
   
MVS Briefs December 2009
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  • Should Have Known' No Longer Enough for Fraud
  • Don't Miss Your Deadline for Filing a Patent Application
  • Federal Circuit Addresses Written Description Requirements
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Patentee President
 
   
MVS Briefs May 2009
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  • Patent Lawsuit Raises Issues for Insurance Industry
  • Patent Reform? Judges First Changes at EPO
  • College Colors Can Be Trademark Protected
 
   
MVS Briefs December 2008
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  • Ten Simple Rules to Protect Your IP Rights
  • No machine or transformation - no patentable method
  • Copyrights: A Sometimes Overlooked Source of Assets
  • Canadian Court Adjusts Obviousness Standard
  • Plans Set for 2009 Trademark Expo
 
   
MVS Briefs August 2008
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  • Before you hit ‘SEND’ consider this…
  • Outsourcing Renders Infringement Opportunities
  • Anti-Piracy Legislation Targets Upper Academia
  • Is Copyright Registration Worth It?
  • USPTO proposes limitations on fax submissions and font size
 
   
MVS Briefs April 2008
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  • Proposed USPTO Rules Permamently Enjoined
  • Federal Circuit to Further Define Eligible Subject Matter
  • Wal-Mart Learns a Lesson in Copyright Licensing
  • Dos and Dont's of Depositions
  • Trademarks as Meta Tags Cross the Line
 
   
MVS Briefs December 2007
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  • GSK Lawsuit Moving Toward Resolution
  • USPTO Report Reflects 2007
  • Fee Increase Makes KIPO Attractive
  • Is Wrap Coverage Soon to Shrink?
  • Design Patents Defined
 
   
MVS Briefs August 2007
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  • Big Patent Law Changes in New Patent Bill
  • Watermarking DNA to Ward Off Infringers
  • IP Definitions
  • Going Beyond the Traditional Trademark
  • Patent Insurance: Spreading Litigation Costs
  • Protect Your Assets from Imported Counterfeits
 
   
MVS Briefs April 2007
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  • Buyer and Seller- Beware
  • Identifying and Transferring IP Rights (cont.)
  • Splenda Leaves a Bitter Taste in Competitors’ Mouths
  • Managing Your Budget with Contingency Litigation
  • USPTO Releases Strategic Plan for 2007-2010
  • IP Definitions
 
   
MVS Briefs December 2006
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  • Patents and Patients: This Interaction May Cause Headaches
  • Your Patent Portfolio Is A Business Asset
  • This Message Brought to You by the Letter W: Wisconsin or Waukee
  • Use Patent Marking to Put the World on Alert
  • The Decision...Not So Obvious This Time
  • IP Definition
 
   
MVS Briefs August 2006
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  • USPTO Test Program Aims to Accelerate Process
  • Pull Up a La-Z-Boy and Pass the Coke Things You Should Know About Using Trademarks in Patent Applications
  • Apparel Company Gets “Smacked” Court Rules in Favor of Trademark for University Color Schemes
  • Licensee v. Licensor in Patent Invalidity
  • PCT Makes Significant Changes
 
   
MVS Briefs April 2006
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Patent Office Restuctures
  • increases fees
  • Nanotechnology
  • the Next Wave
  • PIPRA Expedites Agricultural Innovation Unconventional Trademarks
 
   
MVS Briefs April/May 2004
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Deposit
  • Business Method Patents
  • Publication of Patent Applications
  • Dilution
  • Festo Decision
 
   
MVS Briefs Issue One 2002
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  • 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
 
   
SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE
MVS Spotlight is a quarterly newsletter that focuses on interesting cases, achievements and other news about the firm.
MVS Spotlight Q1 2010
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  • Choose Wisely...Trademarks are Investments
  • Patent Claims: ‘The Hardest Legal Instruments to Write’
  • Taking our CLE on the Road
  • MVS Shows Commitment to Legal Communities
  • We’ll Be There
  • MVS Patent Report
  • MVS Trademark Report
 
   
MVS Spotlight June 4 2004
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  • Coaching the attorneys of the future
  • MVS in the courtroom
  • Insights from the inside
  • MVS springs into action
  • New faces at MVS
  • MVS second quarter patents
 
   
MVS Spotlight Feburary 4 2004
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  • 80 YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG
  • "ZERO" turns 100
  • Foreign patent protection
  • MVS clients extend far and wide
  • Client notes
  • Jan. - Feb.
  • 2004 Patent Report
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q4 2003
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  • Addressing the backlog at USPTO
  • Trademarking world events and crisis
  • Make way for the Madrid protocol
  • Label license restrictions
  • Growin biotechnology in Iowa
  • The Network of Leading Law Firms
  • New & Notable
  • Third quarter patent report
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q2 2003
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  • MVS Puts the brakes on strong
  • MVS an INTA
  • It's not easy being green
  • Teaching the trademarks
  • Achievements and additions
  • Second Quarter 2003 Prosecuted Patents
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q1 2003
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  • MVS extends new look to the web
  • MVS hires new patent attorney Vincent S. Egolf
  • MVS gives back to the community
  • Biotech patents transgenic mouse
  • MVS obtains injunction
  • E-commerce software and business method patents
  • 4th quarter 2002 prosecuted patents
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q4 2002
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  • Biotechnology practice specialty area contributes to new publication
  • McKee celebrates 40 years
  • Case names 7th most important
  • IP worldwide names MVS as protector of IP America
  • Success at federal circuit in personal jurisdiction case
  • Second INTA roundtable
  • Focus: trademark specialty area
  • Chemical expert joins MVS team
  • Iowa intellectual property law association
  • Pioneer lawsuit
  • Tradition continues at drake in intellectual property law
  • Patent cooperation treaty
  • Third quarter 2002 prosecuted patents
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q3 2002
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  • Polk Co. Bar association elects Hansing
  • MVS hires former federal judicial law clerk
  • patent granted for new enzymatic stain remover
  • mccune president of NW Missouri State Alumni Association
  • 124th Annual INTA Meeting in Washington D.C.
  • Voorhees on National board of YMCA
  • Audi's post-trial motions pay off
  • 2nd quarter 2002 prosecuted patents
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q2 2002
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  • Computer Law Group
  • Magic Chef Vs. Master Chef
  • Patents granted for computerized instruction of speech system
  • MVS employees offer a helping hand
  • response to supreme court case
  • back from the coast
  • MVS attorney's book continues to teach
  • first quarter 2002 prosecuted patents
 
   
MVS Spotlight Q1 2002
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  • Audi Defended
  • associate co-authors book
  • mouse clickc
  • supreme court victory
  • biotech patent touted
  • group focus biotech
  • new litigation attorney
 
   

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