Category: Blake’s Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

I would like to congratulate my client Michael Curry of Henderson, NV for his recently issued patent for a Firearm and Air Gun Sight. His patent can be seen here.

Congratulations are in order for Mobile Shelter Systems, Inc. out of Helotes, TX (near San Antonio) for obtaining patent no. 8,881,898 for their important product, a wheel storage and transport frame. The patent can be seen here. This was the first patent application I prepared for Mobile Shelter Systems, Inc.

I was recently interviewed by NBC Connecticut for a story on trademark infringement between a company in Indiana and a small children owned company here in Connecticut. You can see the story here. You can read about here.

My client Kenny Briel of Savage Surfing Products recently received a patent for his adjustable fin system for surfboards. The Patent can be found here. Savage Surfing Products is located in Wilmington, NC, and their website is here.

Congratulations to my client Kevyn Kilgore of Milford, CT for obtaining a patent on his Staple Holder invention. The patent can be found here. I prepared and prosecuted the patent application.

I attended the intellectual property section of the ABA Annual meeting in Boston earlier this month. You can find details of the presentations given here. I enjoyed meeting other patent attorneys, and discussing how to better protect my client’s inventions and trademarks.

I am happy to announce that I have accepted a part-time position at the University of Connecticut School of Law as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law in Hartford. In that position I will teach law students the nuts and bolts of preparing patent applications, purchase filing patent applications, and responding to office actions. In addition, I will show law students how to interact with clients. I will of course continue with my private patent, trademark, and copyright law practice.

My mother was from Mexico and the first language I spoke was Spanish. I still remember a lot of it, so I am happy to help Spanish speakers with their patents, trademarks, and copyrights!

On July 11, 2014 the Federal Circuit came down with a decision in Digitech Image v. Electronics for Imaging (Fed Cir 2014) . The court held the following:

“Data in its ethereal, non-physical form is simply information that does not fall under any of the categories of eligible subject matter under section 101.”

An example of the issued claims that were invalidated is below:

• A device profile for describing properties of a device in a digital image reproduction system to capture, transform or render an image, said device profile comprising:
  first data for describing a device de-pendent transformation of color information content of the image to a device independent color space; and
  second data for describing a device de-pendent transformation of spatial in-formation content of the image in said device independent color space.

A decision in Arlington Industries, Inc. v. Bridgeport Fittings, Inc has just been published here. It is interesting to me because Bridgeport Fittings, Inc. is a local company, located in Stratford, CT despite its name. The Federal Circuit is the federal appeals court that hears generally patent cases, and is only one court below the Supreme Court of the United States. Bridgeport Fittings, Inc.lost the appeal only because the Federal Circuit found it did not have jurisdiction over a contempt order arising out of a patent infringement matter that was not final. It appears that the contempt order has been recently made final, and I presume that Bridgeport Fittings, Inc. will make another appeal, and hopefully the Federal Circuit will decide the contempt order on the merits.