A Board Certified Patent Attorney
How a Trademark Mistake Cost a Business Owner Five-Figures
Do you know how much money your business would lose if you were forced to shut your doors for a day? A week? A month? Well, if you are making the one trademark mistake I’m about to share with you, then you could be putting all of that income at risk. As a Florida trademark attorney practicing for over 15 years in this specialized area of law, I am no longer surprised by the conseq... Read More
Patents Expired? You could be sued…
A quick head’s up to anyone who sells a patented product. The law allows anyone to sue a business that falsely marks a product patent pending or patented. Any can also sue a business that keeps a patent number on a product too long. The incentive for the person bringing the lawsuit is that get to keep up to 50% of the penalties for themselves. As a Fort Lauderdale Patent Attorney... Read More
How Trademark Infringement Can Shut Down Your Business
A trademark battle is being waged in federal court right now involving the National Football League (NFL), NFL Properties (NFLP), the New Orleans Saints, Liquid Ventures Inc., Logo Express Marketing Inc., Monogram Express, Storyville Apparel, and Fleurty Girl. And the center of this suit is a Who Dat? Inc. They claim that all of these companies infringed against their trademark of the Who Dat? phr... Read More
Has your idea already been patented? 5 Ways to Find Out
Excited by a new idea, a young kid in my neighborhood ran up to me last night. He was playing with a bouncy ball, but kept losing it in the dark. Remembering some glow-in-the-dark stickers in his room, he figured a glow-in-the-dark bouncy ball would be a great idea too. I rewarded him for his creativity…told him it was a great idea…and gently let him know someone else had already tho... Read More
Are you Screwed If Someone Patents Your Invention Before You Do?
On a hot South Florida summer night, two years ago, two inventors worked busily in their garages refining their inventions. They were very much alike, these two inventors. Both were hard-working. Both had great ideas that could benefit mankind. And both stood to profit wildly from their inventions. Recently, these two men visited a Fort Lauderdale Patent Attorney to file a patent and protect their... Read More
Impossible to Patent: How to Spot a Time and Money Wasting Idea
As a registered patent attorney in Coral Springs (in South Florida), I’ve helped many inventors turn ideas into fortunes. Their years of investing – both time and money – finally pay off big time. However, for each successful inventor that is making money from their ideas, there are dozens of examples of people who have worked hard and have nothing to show for it. What separ... Read More
Copyright vs. Patent Protection for Inventors
Inventors, did you know some of your work is automatically protected upon creation? And that other work requires specific documentation to make sure nobody steals your intellectual property? This commonly overlooked yet major detail is the difference between copyright and patent law. As a Fort Lauderdale Patent Attorney, I am often asked by inventors to explain the differences betw... Read More
New Jacksonville Patent Office
Florida Patents Attorneys John Rizvi, P.A. announce the opening of a new office in Jacksonville, Florida, serving residents or Jacksonville and surrounding areas with their Intellectual Property legal needs, including patents, trademarks and copyright assistance. Jacksonville Patent Office Location: 841 Prudential Drive 12th Floor Jacksonville, Florida 32207 904-351-6919
Join me at the Florida International Medical Exposition
Join me at the Florida International Medical Exposition As a Fort Lauderdale Patent Attorney, I have been fortunate enough to have attended all of the past several FIME medical expositions. If you are a medical or dental device innovator, this is one tradeshow you DO NOT want to miss. It will take place from August 11 – 13, 2010, at the Miami Beach Conventi... Read More
A Florida Patent Attorney’s Suit of Armor: Integrity
A great majority of the news on patents deals with patent infringement, patent law, and, not coincidentally, it brings to mind the overriding importance of ethics in protecting intellectual property--and profits. As a Florida patent attorney, the long term growth of my business depends on the integrity of the patent applications I file, and recent news underlines its significance.
I Heard it from the Horses Mouth – Attorney Michael Jakes Speaks on the Bilski Case Regarding Patentability of Business Methods and Processes
Awaiting my red-eye flight back home to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after attending a patenting symposium in San Francisco. I feel privileged to have had an opportunity to hear attorney Michael Jakes and his take on the Bilski case before the Supreme Court on the patentability of business methods. For the non-patent attorneys out there, the Supreme Court recently hear... Read More
Patent Claiming, Like Football, is a Game of Inches
In the movie Any Given Sunday, Al Pacino played a football coach tony D’Amato in a wonderful locker-room motivational speech telling his players to keep playing even when everything seems stacked against them and fight for every inch. Watch the short 3-4 minute video below first and then lets look into how this is relevant to drafting the claims of a patent. "An inch can mean... Read More