- The USPTO released a report on trends and characteristics of inventors that are women. The report shows that while there is some good news, there is still much to be done to increase diversity.
- Tuberculosis survivors are challenging a pharmaceutical company's patent-protected monopoly on TB treatment.
Tell us a bit about your legal practice. What type of work do you focus on?
I started Lichy Law in October 2017 after a 6 year stint in Biglaw and then 5 years as the co-founder and CEO of a women’s accessories brand in NYC. I was originally going to be a “Fashion Law Firm” but quickly realized that my background and skill set could offer value far beyond the limited field of fashion-related legal matters and so it naturally transitioned to a Start Up firm. I like to think of Lichy Law as a Start Up for Start Ups. The type of work we focus on is pretty much anything that new and budding entrepreneurs need help with.
Celebrity tattoos are constantly making headlines and it appears that the art form is only gaining popularity. A recent Pew Research Center survey from 2017 stated that close to 40 percent of adults ages 18-29 have at least one tattoo. With tattoos becoming more common, litigation over the ownership and use of tattoos has also seen an uptick over the past ten years. Despite this increase in litigation, some of the questions tattoos raise in the areas of copyright and trademark law are still very unclear.
The process of hiring a new employee can be daunting. We certainly haven’t perfected the process but we have put a good deal of thought into it! So, we compiled a helpful guide to walk you through our process.
Welcome back to Beyond the Docket! This time we are back to interview Caroline Fox of CJ Fox Law. Caroline is a small business attorney with a focus on creatives, startups, and event professionals. We talk about her background in PR and advertising, her Next Tuesday Podcast and how to land speaking engagements.
Last month, we teamed up with Wolters Kluwer to hold an event at the INTA annual meeting in Seattle. The event was held at Copperworks Distilling, with catering from Skillet. Thanks to everyone who came out and made it such a wonderful event! Check out some of the photos from the event below.
Alt Legal is thrilled to announce that it is sponsoring "On Your Marks: Frontline Issues in Trademark and Advertising Law," a professional development and CLE program by the New York City Bar Association. The program is on Monday, April 24, 2017 from 9 am to 5 pm.
Benvinguts a Barcelona! INTA’s 2017 annual conference will take place from May 20-24 in Barcelona, the cosmopolitan Catalonian capital. With over 9,000 attendees already registered, the event is sure to be another excellent networking opportunity. Our CEO, our legal product manager, and others from Alt Legal will be at booth D84/86.
Alt Legal is one of twelve companies named in the American Bar Association's Techshow Startup Alley competition.
At the Florida Bar InSession event, Alt Legal founder and CEO Nehal Madhani gave a talk on leveraging technology in legal practices. The talk an overview of different types of technology—from billing and practice management software to government APIs—and explains how lawyers can use the technologies to make their practices more effective and efficient.
One lucky lawyer walked away from this year’s InternationalTrademark Association’s Annual Meeting with a free, one-year subscription to Alt Legal’s cloud-based IP filing software. In a random drawing of business cards, we selected Paul D. Supnik, a copyright, trademark, and entertainment attorney in Beverly Hills.
We're excited to unveil our new and improved TTAB and international docketing tools at INTA Orlando. See our official announcement is below!
We'll be demonstrating our latest features and integrations at INTA's 2016 Annual Meeting in Orlando. Schedule your demo here.
This month, I had the opportunity to attend the International Trademark Association annual conference in Hong Kong. For those of you not familiar with the annual INTA conference, it's a five-day event with over 8,000 international IP professionals, complete with educational sessions, networking events, and exhibitors. Perhaps most interesting for the team at Plainlegal was the USPTO's User Meeting with Deborah Cohn (the USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks), Sharon Marsh (the USPTO Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination), and Mary Denison (the USPTO Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Operations). Here are the highlights from the talk:
