We are pleased to announce that four of our Partners, Scott Brown, Cheryl Burbach, Crissa Cook, and Michael Hurd have been selected to the 2022 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers list. Selection for the Super Lawyers list means these Partners rate among the top 5% of...
Kansas City Intellectual Property Blog
Four Hovey Williams Partners Honored as Super Lawyers®
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Global Entrepreneurship Week – KC
ATTENTION PIONEERS and INVENTORS!! DON'T MISS OUT ON FREE INFORMATIVE SESSIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURS. Global Entrepreneurship Week - KC happens November 14-20, 2022. Learn how to to protect and commercialize your inventions with patents, trade secrets, copyrights and...
Happy Halloween
This is how we do Halloween - we celebrate with a costume contest! Some of our staff and attorneys donned Halloween costumes and vied for prizes and some office fun. The firm voted to determine the WINNERS: First place – Laura (Pebbles from the Flintstones) Second...
Dianne Smith-Misemer Named in Top 25 US Trademark Attorneys Specialized in Web3
Congratulations to our own Dianne Smith-Misemer on this great honor.
USPTO Implements New Deadlines to Respond to Office Actions for Applications and Registrations
USPTO ALERT! SHORTENED RESPONSE TIME Beginning on December 3, 2022, instead of the current six months, trademark applicants will have three months (with a possible three-month extension) to respond to an office action issued during the examination of a trademark...
Inaugural Intellectual Bootcamp a Success!
Inaugural Intellectual Bootcamp a Success!
Hovey Williams 2023 recognition in “The Best Lawyers in America”®
We are proud to announce that 10 of our attorneys are listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2023! The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes only the top 5.3% of elite lawyers in the nation in their specific location and practice area. We are humbled by these...
Meet our Law Clerk, Jake Langerot
In honor of #National Intern Day, we'd like to celebrate and recognize our own law clerk, Jacob (Jake) Langerot. Jake joined Hovey Williams in February of 2022 as a Law Clerk. We're thrilled to announce that he will continue clerking with team Hovey through the...
Save the date! Intellectual Property Bootcamp for Diverse Students – September 30th
Mark your calendar! Intellectual Property Bootcamp | Friday, September 30th, 2022 | 9am – 3:15pm | Overland Park, Kansas
New Trademark Registrations Linked to Future Profitability and Stock Valuation, but Consistently Undervalued by Analysts and Investors
A study recently published in Management Science entitled, “Valuation of New Trademarks,” finds that a public company’s new trademark registrations substantially contribute to the firm’s long-term valuation but are notoriously undervalued by analysts and investors.[1]...
