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PATENT TIP: Consider a “Forward Looking” Patent Strategy
Your IP portfolio protects your company’s product or service. But have you considered a "forward looking" patent strategy? A forward looking patent strategy anticipates what coming next in your industry, identifies the critical technical problems that will need to be...
PATENT TIP: Avoiding issues of patent ownership
Full ownership of your patent is important, especially if your company uses independent contractors, third party vendors, and/or employees. When any of these parties contribute to the conception of the invention, you are legally required to list them as a co-inventor...
PATENT TIP: “What can we patent”?
A common question that comes up again and again is "what can we patent"? You're interesting in protecting your product or service with patents, but you're not sure what to patent. Try starting with these questions: (1) What features of our product/service gives us...
Michele Liu Baillie named as a Super Lawyer for Third Straight Year
Michele Liu Baillie, Founder of North Patents, is named as a Super Lawyer in New England Super Lawyers in 2020. Super Lawyers rates outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement....
USPTO Further Extends Certain Patent Deadlines Under CARES Act
On May 27, 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced for a third time that it was extending the time to file certain patent-related documents and to pay certain required fees. For small and micro entities, filings that would have been deemed timely filed,...
USPTO Extends Waiver of Patent and Trademark-Related Timing Deadlines under the CARES Act
On April 28, 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was further extending the time to file certain patent and trademark-related documents and to pay certain required fees. The waiver applies to filings due between March 27, 2020 and May 31,...
USPTO: Inventorship Limited to Natural Persons
USPTO rules AI cannot be an “inventor”
Michele Liu Baillie Named as a Super Lawyer in 2019
Michele Liu Baillie, Founder of North Patents, is named as a Super Lawyer in New England Super Lawyers in 2019. Super Lawyers rates outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement....
North Shore Patents celebrates 10 years! (… and counting…)
Our story began in 2009 when North Shore Patents was born in the midst of the financial crisis. Some might think it was “crazy” to hang out my own shingle in that climate, especially since I moved to New England from Silicon Valley with no...
USPTO Releases Report on Women Inventors
On February 11, 2019, the US Patent and Trademark Office released a report, "Progress and Potential: A profile of women inventors on U.S. patents". The report evaluated trends and characteristics of US women inventors named on US patents granted from 1976 through...
Michele Liu Baillie Named a Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
October 18, 2018. Michele Liu Baillie, Patent Attorney and Managing Director of North Shore Patents, was honored as a 2018 Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. "The Top Women of Law event celebrates outstanding achievements made by exceptional women...
Michele Liu Baillie Completes Term as President of Women’s Bar Association
The Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts (WBA) held its 2018 annual meeting and reception for newly admitted lawyers on March 28, 2018 at the Omni Parker House Hotel. At the event, the WBA introduced new leadership, welcomed new women attorneys to the organization...
Michele Liu Baillie named President of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts
The Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts (WBA) held its 2017 annual meeting and reception for newly admitted lawyers on March 23, 2017 at the Omni Parker House Hotel. At this event the WBA transitioned to new leadership, welcomed new women attorneys to the Massachusetts legal community, and awarded its Distinguished Public Service Award, an award recognizing those who have made significant commitments to public service and who have contributed to the advancement of women in the legal profession.
North Shore Patents Named Top IP Firm for 2016
North Shore Patents has been named as a Top IP Firm for 2016 by IPWatchdog. We compiled a list of the top patent firms that are ranked based on the total number of U.S. utility patents that issued in 2016 where the patent firms were listed on the front of the utility...
Michele Liu Baillie featured in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Michele Liu Baillie, Principal of North Shore Patents, was recently featured in an interview in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Read the interview here.
Michele Liu Baillie named President-Elect of WBA
We are proud to announce that Michele Liu Baillie of North Shore Patents has been named President-Elect of the Women's Bar Association for 2016-2017. "I'm proud and honored to be President-Elect of the WBA. I look forward to working with my colleagues to advance...
Proud Supporter of the Women’s Bar Association Gala
North Shore Patents is proud to be a supporter of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts (WBA) Gala for the 4th straight year. The Gala is the WBA’s annual signature event, showcasing the WBA’s support of women attorneys and honoring the recipients of the Lelia...
Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Royalties Received by Patentees
In Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC (2015), the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overrule the rule in Brulotte v. Thys that a patentee cannot continue to receive royalties for sales made after the expiration of the patent. The Court instead said that relief must be...
USPTO Issues Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility
On December 16, 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published its Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility in the Federal Register. (Get copy here.) This guidance offers more advice to Examiners in evaluating whether a claimed invention...
Supreme Court Rejects Expanded Inducement Doctrine
The Supreme Court, in its decision in Limelight Networks v. Akamai Tech, has held that one cannot be liable for inducing another party to infringe a patent without a determination that such other party actually committed direct infringement. In other words, in order...