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Hovey Williams Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Edition
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Patent Law
‘Girls Can’t Get Rich Playing Sports,’ And Other Reasons I Became An Attorney
A look at how representation and the lack thereof shaped the career of a female patent agent turned patent lawyer.
Four Hovey Williams Partners Honored as Super Lawyers®
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...
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...
Hovey Williams 2023 Recognition in “The Best Lawyers in America”®
Congratulations to our honorees. A well deserved honor.
USPTO Announced Launch of a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program
On June 3, 2022, the USPTO announced the launch of a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program. Under this Pilot Program, qualifying nonprovisional utility patent applications involving technologies that mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions will...
Intellectual Property Rights in Russia – An Update
In response to the economic sanctions imposed by Western countries, the Russian government has legalized intellectual property piracy against rights holders in so called “enemy countries.” The list of countries includes all members of the European Union and the...
Sony Granted a Metaverse Patent
The USPTO recently granted Sony Interactive Entertainment a patent on methods for influencing a gaming world (US 11,192,027). The invention in the patent was conceived during the development of a game called “Death Stranding” which features online worlds filled with...
Assignor Estoppel: Minerva Surgical v. Hologic
Assignor Estoppel is a patent law doctrine dating back to the 1870 Patent Act and first recognized by the Supreme Court in in the 1924 decision of Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. v. Formica Insulation. This doctrine prevents an inventor from assigning a patent to...
Review Power of Administrative Patent Judges: United States v. Arthrex
At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Arthrex, which concerned the constitutionality of the decision power of administrative patent judges (APJs). APJs are employees of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) that, among...
