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• Twitter Awarded Patent on Tweeting April 6, 2013 TweetOn March 19, 2013, the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 8,401,009 to Twitter. The Twitter patent is titled: Device Independent Message Distribution Platform. It seems to me that the other social media platforms are utilizing similar functionality as well. I suppose that is a very good thing for Twitter! Depending ...
• Job Openings – Two New Litigation Positions (Jr/Mid/Sr) – California March 15, 2013 TweetTop tier international firm seeks associates with 4-7 years of IP Litigation experience in Los Angeles & global firm, has an opening for a junior/midlevel IP Litigation associate in San Francisco.
• Article One Partners Announces New Veterans Program March 9, 2013 TweetIn December of 2012 Article One Partners announced that they would be launching an educational contest series geared towards military veterans with an interest in research, science and technology. The program, known as the Article One Partners Veterans Program or AOP-Vets for short will consist of three main pillars; an educational curriculum on patent research, ...
• Job Opening – Mid-Level Patent Litigator – Los Angeles March 8, 2013 TweetA top tier international firm is seeking an experienced and seasoned patent litigator for its Los Angeles office. The ideal candidate will have 2-6 years of Patent Litigation experience in ITC and District Court patent litigation.
• Job Opening – Patent Counsel – Washington DC March 7, 2013 TweetThis prominent national firm seeks a highly qualified patent attorney with a Ph.D. in Biology or relevant technical field to join the Washington, D.C. office.
• Job Opening – Midlevel Patent Prosecution Associate – Silicon Valley March 6, 2013 TweetThis Silicon Valley stalwart is expanding its operation and is seeking patent prosecution associates to join their Silicon Valley industry leading team.
• Job Opening – Midlevel Patent Prosecution Associate – DC March 5, 2013 TweetThis prominent international firm seeks a mid-level IP associate attorney with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (organic or medicinal chemistry preferred) for its Intellectual Property practice group in the Washington, D.C. office.
• Job Opening – IP Litigation Partner – San Diego March 4, 2013 TweetHigh end IP boutique firm (headquartered in Washington D.C.) is seeking seasoned IP Litigators to help grow the firm’s San Diego office.
• All-time Best Corporate Character Mascots February 11, 2013 TweetRecently Inc.com published an article titled The Art and Science of Corporate Icons, which discusses Skeeter the squirrel, who is apparently the only squirrel in the world allergic to nuts. Skeeter is also the cartoon mascot for Skeeter Snacks, a line of nut-free cookies created by Dave Leyrer and Pete Najarian, whose target audience is ...
• 5 Bad Habits Small Businesses Have With Social Media June 30, 2012 TweetNo matter where we go these days, social media surrounds us. It seems everyone is saying, “Follow us on Twitter.” “Like us on Facebook.” “For More Information Scan Our QR Code.” Just this week alone I have seen at least a dozen places in my everyday life where social media has come into ...
• Internet Giants Fight Badware in Ads Integrity Alliance June 23, 2012 TweetOver recent years, online advertising has been a driving force in the growth of the Internet. As business owners, you never stop hearing about the benefits of having your own website and advertising your services on-line. I am guilty of preaching this sermon myself! However, because of the ever-increasing existence of badware, it ...
• 5 Simple Ways to Leverage Your Online Business Relationships June 8, 2012 TweetSocial Media is not a fad. It is not something that is going to go away nor is it going to be replaced by something bigger and better. Most businesses have embraced social media and all that it has to offer. Perhaps you, yourself have taken a ride on the social media ...
• Google “Goog” Doodle Honors Music Innovator Robert Moog May 24, 2012 TweetAs most likely already know, Google has made it a tradition to create fun Google logo’s (or Doodles) to celebrate specific holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists. You may recall that on Saturday May 22, 2010, in celebration of Pacman’s 30th Anniversary, Google featured its very first interactive ...
• IP Contributes $5 Trillion and 40 Million Jobs to US Economy April 11, 2012 TweetToday I attended the an event on Intellectual Property and the US Economy which was held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds. The purpose of the event was to unveil a study — Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: Industries in Focus — prepared by the Economics and Statistics Administration ...
• Celebration! Tuesday April 10 is Be Kind To Lawyers Day April 10, 2012 TweetSo, what is this International Be Kind To Lawyers Day? I am so glad you asked! Steve Hughes, a non-lawyer from St. Louis, has been working with attorneys for many years now through his consulting firm Hit Your Stride, LLC. Whenever Steve merely mentions that he works with lawyers, he is more often ...
• USPTO Holds 2d Annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium April 3, 2012 TweetOn Sunday March 25 and Monday March 26, 2012, I attended the Second Annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (WES) in Shreveport, LA. The event was hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Honor of Women’s History Month and was put together in collaboration with U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) and ...
• Women’s History Month: PTO Women’s Symposium in Shreveport March 8, 2012 TweetLater in the month in Shreveport, Louisiana, the USPTO will hold its 2nd Annual Women’s Entrepreneur Symposium. This event will take place from March 25 – 26, 2012, and is co-sponsored by the USPTO, U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu and Cedric B. Glover, mayor of the City of Shreveport. The event will take place at ...
• Boutique Rising: A Conversation with Winthrop & Weinstine February 29, 2012 TweetSix patent and litigation attorneys recently left the international law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP to join the growing Intellectual Property team at Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. The addition of these six attorneys brings the total number of IP lawyers at Winthrop & Weinstineup to 30. This got us thinking that maybe this ...
• How Your Telephone System Impacts Your Brand January 28, 2012 TweetIf you are a small business owner, you are located in a small personal office or you work from home, you probably use either a cell phone or personal landline as your business phone. When you call a potential client, what shows up on their called ID? What do potential clients hear when ...
• 5 Simple Steps to Building A Personal Brand Using Social Media January 17, 2012 TweetJust like people, all brands have their own personality. Brand personality is defined as a set of human characteristics that are associated with a brand name and is determined by consumer interactions with your brand. It is essentially, how your brand behaves in the public light. Your brand personality is determined mainly ...
• Teenage Inventor Rebecca Hyndman Discusses Patents, Inventing, High School and President Obama January 14, 2012 TweetOn September 17, 2011, I attended the Signing of the America Invents Act at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. A young lady named Rebecca Hyndman, who is a senior at the high school, introduced President Obama, which took place immediately prior to his signing the Act into law. Rebecca was ...
• Top 10 Social Networking Resolutions for Business in 2012 December 30, 2011 TweetOne of the best things about social media is that you don’t need to have a big marketing budget to benefit from the different ways that social media can propel your business, but you do need to be committed and have a strategy. If you are not going to hire a consultant to assist you ...
• 14 Ways to Exploit the Power of Social Media for Business December 27, 2011 TweetThanks to social media everyone has the ability to connect with like-minded individuals all over the world. But if you want to exploit social media you need to have an effective strategy. It doesn’t take an enormous amount of time each day. In fact with only 15 minutes a day, you can really make quite ...
• Merry Christmas from IPWatchdog December 24, 2011 TweetThe holiday season is about having fun, spreading cheer and spending time with family and friends. So in that spirit we put together a few video Christmas cards for our readers. From our family to yours – Merry Christmas! Thank you for reading IPWatchdog.com!
• The Social Media Diva to Have an Anterior Cervical Discectomy December 13, 2011 TweetAfter meeting with my doctor, discussing the results of my tests, reading through all of the documentation and talking to my mother who had a similar surgery in 2000, I realized that there have been so many medical breakthroughs over the years. These medical breakthroughs make surgeries like this possible, and in many cases ...
• Top 5 Twitter Myths Busted: Twitter Demystified November 25, 2011 TweetOnce you understand what to tweet, how to tweet and how much to tweet, you are quickly able to make excellent connections, increase your website statistics and search engine ranking, find some of your best brand advocates, and benefit quickly and efficiently from word of mouth marketing. In fact, next to YouTube, micro-blogging on Twitter ...
• Top 5 Myths About Social Media for Business November 19, 2011 TweetSocial media is quickly become THE way to market your business. In the US, more than two thirds of all adults who are active online are also actively using social media today, However, there is still a whopping 57% of businesses who, for one reason or another do not understand the real impact that social ...
• IPWatchdog Launches its JobOrtunities™ Help Wanted Section November 13, 2011 TweetYou may have noticed that there is a new addition to IPWatchdog’s extensive arsenal of information available to IP professionals, employees and employers alike. This week IPWatchdog.com has launched its newest brand, the JobOrtunities™ Help Wanted Section; which will feature available career opportunities within the IP world.
• Starbucks and Other Popular Restaurants Go Social November 2, 2011 TweetIt seems that no matter where you go these days, the likelihood is high that you will see a “Free Wi-Fi” sticker on the front door of the establishment. Whether you are going for coffee, meeting a colleague for lunch, stopping at a rest stop or waiting for an airplane, you can pretty much ...
• An Apple History: Remembering Apple CEO Steve Jobs October 9, 2011 TweetSteve Jobs, the visionary founder and leader of Apple Computer Corporation, died Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the age of 56 after an 8-year battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Jobs, who is sometimes referred to as the father of personal computing, was the mastermind behind Apple’s Computers, iPods, iPhones, iMacs and iPad’s ...
• AIPF 2011 Annual Meeting: A Recap of the Event September 30, 2011 TweetLast week the Association for Intellectual Property Firms (AIPF) held its 2011 Annual Meeting at the W Chicago City Center Hotel. The theme for this years event was “Enhancing IP Rights in a Time of Erosion.” The program covered topics and featured and a variety of professionals from across the IP spectrum and beyond, including ...
• How Industry Giants Like Apple, Inc & Others Use Social Media September 24, 2011 TweetThose of you who follow IPWatchdog, know that my passion is Brand Development, Brand Building, and Online Marketing using social media. I try to educate our readers on how they can use social media for their businesses regardless of size. However, I decided to take a different approach and compare the social media ...
• The Bill is Signed: President Obama Signs America Invents Act September 17, 2011 TweetPresident Obama started by commending the students of what he called “One of the best high schools in the country.” He mentioned that; “We have an exhibit of some of the projects that you guys are doing, including the fist high school student satellite, a wheel chair controlled by brain waves, robotics and more. ...
• Having a Website is Essential for Business August 24, 2011 TweetHow often do you use a telephone book to search for a business of interest? Phonebook? What’s a phonebook, right? How often do you search in the online yellow pages for a particular business? Probably anytime you want to know how to contact a company of interest. And how often ...
• Turning Your Small Business Into Big Business August 17, 2011 TweetHaving a small business means having many challenges, especially in the earliest phases of development. Faced with challenges such as letting people know about your new business, establishing and augmenting your brand, creating a website, designing logos, developing and implementing marketing initiatives, creating and printing real world marketing materials, procuring new clients and customers, ...
• Making Small Business Look Bigger August 6, 2011 TweetThere are many ways to enhance your small business, making it look bigger, at relatively inexpensive costs. Everyone has to start somewhere, but think about things from the customer’s perspective. Think about a time when you were searching for businesses that you wanted to work with for personal use. Did you choose the smallest entity ...
• Will Google+ Be the Next Facebook? July 17, 2011 TweetGoogle, which is undoubtedly the most popular website in the world seems to constantly be challenging the domination of the second-most popular website, Facebook, which is the world’s largest online social network that currently boasts 750 million users. For this reason, Google has been trying to create a social platform of it’s own to ...
• Facebook Fan Pages Vs. Groups, Which is Best for Your Business? July 14, 2011 TweetYou have a business, a website and a traditional marketing strategy. But now you have decide to give social media a try. You feel that Facebook would be a good place for you to reach many potential customers within your target audience. But when you go onto Facebook you notice that there ...
• Facebook Facial Recognition Tool Poses New Security Threats June 27, 2011 TweetAlthough Facebook originally discussed the use of facial recognition technology in a small blog post on the site back in December, it was listed as unavailable until earlier this month. The social media giant released its new Autotag facial-recognition tool that will allow users to autotag photos of their friends based on what they ...
• With Social Media, YOU Are Your Brand June 24, 2011 TweetWith social media, You Are Your Brand. But what exactly does that mean? If you are part of a larger firm or business, you may be using social media to promote the products and services your company/firm offers, but you are doing so as an individual. Social media is about sharing content and building relationships. ...
• LinkedIn IPO Huge Success, Valuation of $8.79 Billion May 22, 2011 TweetLinkedIn announced this week that the professional social networking giant is now valued at $8.79 Billion, roughly 38 times sales figures reported in 2010, after it’s first day as a publicly traded company on May 18. This may be hard to believe by many because LinkedIn has never reported being profitable, nor have they ...
• Social Media Pitfalls – Common Yet Avoidable Mistakes May 14, 2011 TweetSocial media has taken the world by storm. Everyone from college students, to politicians, to news media outlets, to business professionals, to small and big businesses, to musicians and artists and other individual people both young and old have jumped on the social media bandwagon. When creating a marketing campaign, no ...
• Common Marketing Mistakes Attorneys Make, Part Deux April 24, 2011 TweetCan you honestly say that your firm has more business than it can handle? I would venture a guess that no, it does not. Marketing is so often put on the back burner to everything else that needs to be done. This is especially the case for firms that need to cut ...
• Common Marketing Mistakes Attorneys Make April 20, 2011 TweetIn other words, simply making a sale does not mean you are marketing your products and services effectively. Effective marketing is the process by which you promote your firm through the sharing of information with prospective clients about what you have to offer, with the ultimate goal being that a sale is made. ...
• Attorney Marketing and Brand Building 101 March 30, 2011 TweetBrand building seems like a rather easy task for companies that offer tangible products, but as attorneys, all you have to sell is your time, so things can be a little bit different. You need to also factor in that in many, if not most, instances clients feel they are represented by an individual. ...
• USPTO Hosts Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium March 17, 2011 TweetOn Friday March 11, 2011, I attended the Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium in honor of Women’s History Month at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The program was co-sponsored by the US Women’s Chamber of Commerce and focused on women entrepreneurs, the importance of intellectual property protection for their innovations, how to leverage economic opportunities ...
• The 2011 Global Patent and IP Trends Indicator March 1, 2011 TweetThe survey assesses the impact of the U.S. economy on global IP strategies for 2011, and is available for free to anyone interested in the results. The survey includes a number of interesting findings, including among these are that 88% of respondents say they were in favor of a European Wide Patent System (which ...
• The Power of Branding Through Catchy Advertising, GEICO Commercials February 24, 2011 TweetBrand building can be defined as ‘Building the perceptions of your target audience.’ Those who work in marketing usually say that in order to really build your brand you need to be consistent in your marketing campaigns. Consistency and repetition are a sure way to ingrain your message into the minds of those ...
• Top 10 Mistakes Businesses Make with Social Media February 18, 2011 TweetSocial Media has quickly become the fastest growing online phenomenon. Originally Social networking was for college students and artists and musicians, but increasingly businesses of all sizes have jumped on the Social Media bus. Small, medium and large sized business, retail storeowners, politicians, journalistic publications, law firms, chain stores, restaurants and businesses from ...
• Congress Meets the New Media: How Facebook, Twitter & Social Media are Changing Communications February 8, 2011 TweetOver the last two election cycles it has become clear how important it is to have a social media strategy. President Obama masterfully used various Internet and social media communications to ride a wave into office, leaving the Republicans well behind. In the 2010 election cycle the Democrats tended to do quite well on Facebook, ...