Dallas – Ideal City for Patent Professionals

This post is written by Yoon Chae, an Associate of Baker & McKenzie  *Disclaimer: This article represents the opinion of Yoon Chae as an individual and not of Baker & McKenzie as a firm. For a patent attorney, working in a city exposed to diverse patent...

Crowdsourcing – Not Just for Businesses Anymore

USPTO director David Kappos is getting things done. He’s opening satellite USPTO offices, helping American University law students patent sex, and now, supporting crowdsourcing prior art searches for patent applications. Crowdsourcing is a method of tapping into the...

Can You Patent a Rectangle?

On March 17, 2004, Apple Computer, Inc. filed patent D504,889. This patent was granted on May 10, 2005. The patent claims “the ornamental design for an electronic device, substantially as shown and described below.” Looking at the patent, the picture is a...