Georg M. Hasselmann, Esq. has been awarded the 2020 Colleague of the Year. Georg joined the law firm of Thrive IP® as an attorney in 2019. Georg is a Registered Patent Attorney and is admitted to...
Apple Sliced Up in the U.S. Court System
The Obama administration’s America Invents Act of 2011 was supposed to improve the U.S. patent system and reduce patent litigation.[1] A decade later Apple Inc., one of the original proponents...
“Discretionary” Institution Of Inter Partes Review Petitions Will Almost Always Be Granted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
“Discretionary” is beginning to mean “nearly always” in the world of Inter Partes Reviews (IPR). See, e.g., Is the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board Still a Patent “Death Squ...
Jeremy Stipkala Speaks at Upcoming Free Webinars
Thrive IP® patent attorney Jeremy M. Stipkala will speak about patents and trade secret protection at the Intellectual Property Webinar Series on January 19, 2021. Dr. Stipkala will speak again...
Peter Brewer Speaks to Society of Petroleum Engineers
Peter Brewer was the speaker for the Denver Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers this month. Peter spoke on the topic of Patents and the Energy Industry. Peter fielded a number of...
Thrive IP®’s William La Salle III Is Now a Licensed Patent Attorney
Following a year and a half-long mentorship under the supervision of Thrive IP®’s patent attorneys, William La Salle III has passed the Virginia Bar Exam and is now licensed as an attorney in the C...
Thrive IP® Selected to Serve as Host for Meeting With USPTO Patent Commissioner
Peter Brewer of Thrive IP® has been selected by the Tennessee IP Law Association and the Nashville Bar Association to serve as the host for a virtual meeting with Drew Hirshfeld, the Commissioner for...
Thrive IP® Wins Legal Battle for Local Model
Thrive IP® recently prevented an entertainment company from using photographs of our client, a model, in a product that would have used the photographs in a defamatory manner. Ben Klosowski, the lead...