Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; We Are! Not happy! U.S. Patent office frowns on Penn State trademark request
"Josh Gerben, a trademark attorney in Washington, D.C., offered an
analysis via twitter of the geographic issue raised by the Patent Office
and another reason the agency refused the application: the trademark as
submitted was deemed "ornamental.''
He said both issues are correctable...
Of the ornamental issue, he said, "I believe this is trademarks 101
and it shocks me every time a large institution or organization gets it
wrong.""
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Friday, March 15, 2019
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