The Young Patent Practitioner Series continues with its third installment on “USPTO Pilot Programs,” a lesson from Sangik Bae, an intellectual property attorney at Ladas & Parry, LLP’s Chicago office. Mr. Bae’s attached post provides an overview of the USPTO’s implemented pilot programs which have been intended to advance patent applications and to provide applicants assistance. The…

The UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law is proud to announce the publication of Issue 2 of Volume 19! We are pleased to feature articles by Mark Blankenship, Jr., Danning Zhu, William Weightman, and UIC John Marshall Professor William Ford. This issue features three articles on Chinese IP law covering the country’s IP reforms, copyright…

The UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law is proud to announce the publication of Issue 1 of Volume 19! We are pleased to feature articles by Chelsea Button, Dr. Cesar J. Ramirez-Montes, Peter Hecker, and Igor Slabykh covering a wide range of topics: Cryptocurrencies and their forking phenomenas, the EU trademark functionality doctrine, patent infringements…

Dear Readers, The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law (“RIPL”) is pleased to announce the publication of our final issue of the journal’s eighteenth volume.  This issue features six articles authored by practitioners and professors in the field of intellectual property law, as well as two student-member comments.  Our first featured article, entitled “Abstraction in…

The Young Patent Practitioner Series continues with its second installment on “Types of Applications (MPEP 200, 600, 1400, 1800 Summary),” a lesson from Sangik Bae, an intellectual property attorney at Ladas & Parry, LLP‘s Chicago office. Mr. Bae’s attached post provides an overview of the patent prosecution process by explaining the types of patent applications, specifically focusing…