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The decision and some of the language employed by the Court signaled a shift in European trade mark law towards increased protection for trade marks emphasizing the investment and advertising value of marks in addition to their fundamental legal function as indications of origin.

Though the .CO domain is being marketed for its association with the words “company,” “corporation,” or other commercial endeavors, the .CO domain will be available to any business or individual seeking a new TLD extension.

Venture capital investment fell back, but debt offerings, IPOs and M&A activity ensured clean tech deals defied the downturn last year

Join us for a panel discussion which brings together two different perspectives — the entrepreneur and the investor — on Silicon Valley in 2010.

There is no better place to start than at the beginning of the lawyer-client relationship, where I pull back the curtain on law firms and tell you how to get the most out of this important relationship.

Unprecedented New Enforcement Measures Introduced in the United Kingdom to Tackle Online Copyright Infringements and Unauthorised File-Sharing

The court stated that, for the written description requirement, “the test for sufficiency is whether the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter as of the filing date.”

Dorsey is one of the sponsors of this upcoming Biomass conference in May in Minneapolis. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested. We can get a reduced conference rate for our clients and friends, so any interested Montana person or company should contact me (and not register online).

Contact: Jack Manning, [email protected], (406) 721-6025

For companies that have been trying creatively to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s new endorsement guidelines (effective December 1, 2009), help may have arrived this week.

It is increasingly important for manufacturing companies to review their product labeling to ensure that the listed patents cover the product marked, and that the product labeling is revised when patents expire or are held invalid.