Patent Baristas

“In every crisis, there is opportunity” ~Chinese Proverb With a GDP of more than $8,000 billion, China is poised to become the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical market next year – up from number eight in 2006.  The $24.5 billion pharmaceutical market is expected to swell to $68 billion to $78 billion by 2013, leaving it behind […]

solipsism – n. – the theory that the self can be aware of nothing but its own experiences. You already know they exist — out there somewhere — waiting to bash your company.  Just look at websites such as “I Hate Boingo” and “PayPal Sucks.”  Don’t even get me started on all the variations of […]

In Patents for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology: Fundamentals of Global Law, Practice and Strategy, Philip Grubb and Peter R. Thomsen provide a solid introduction to patent law topics in some of the largest countries, with an emphasis on Europe, Britain, and the USA. Given the importance of global trade and patent protection for products that […]

After having some new faces join our firm, I’ve been thinking about the inherent difficulties of balancing work with the rest of life.  While I’ll leave the question of whether lawyers can achieve a work-life balance — or if many even want balance — for another day, I do think it’s useful to take stock […]

Trade secrets often represent the most valuable assets of certain companies.  The value of trade secrets continues to grow in our information-age economy as does the mobility of the work force. Both forces are increasing pressure on trade secrets. The Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), defines trade secret to mean information, including a formula, pattern, […]

If you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a difference with what you have, what you have expands. ~ Lynne Twist on the principle of sufficiency As we go through a […]

gray market n. a market employing irregular but not illegal methods; especially : a market that legally circumvents authorized channels of distribution to sell goods at prices lower than those intended by the manufacturer. ~Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law A gray market (or grey market) is the trade of a commodity through distribution channels which, while […]

I aim to shed light on the extent to which advance in the life sciences was directed by the profit motive and the availability of the patent system … and on the ways that the patent ‘institution’ evolved in response to science and to interest groups, mainly business ones, but also legal practitioners associated with […]