“Yum!” exclaimed Elle as she saw the box of scones, brioche and other goodies that Daniella, CompanieBee’s IP attorney, had brought along for the meeting. “Where did you get these?” Elle asked. “In the Inner Sunset District, at a bakery called Arizmendi.” The other members [...]
Patents are sometimes visualized as fences, designating where property lines run. But where the confusion seems to reside, is whether these fences are delineating where you can run free or where others can’t go. To put it in IP jargon, having a patent is not [...]
I met a group of angel investors the other day at an event addressing the selection of companies for investment. I asked one participant whether intellectual property (IP) was part of their consideration. “We leave that to the attorney” was the answer I got. I [...]
A few years ago, I wrote about the first emergence of biosimilars on the US market. At the time, everyone was focused on the patent dance – how patent litigation would play out with the new rules. Very little was happening in the product arena. [...]
