Martensen IP Law, a leading Colorado intellectual property law firm, has announced that client Taber Innovation Group has been granted a patent (No. 3107547) for its Personnel (First Responder) Location and Monitoring System by the Canadian Patent Office.
Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Popular culture likes to cultivate the myth of the maverick entrepreneur, often attributing the innovation in a company to a lone genius. The reality is that innovative companies cannot and should not rely on singular flashes of genius, but instead should build a culture of innovation from the ground up.
Martensen IP’s Barbara Courtney is an intellectual property (IP) attorney and former engineer with more than 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley. She works with public and private companies to develop IP portfolios, from the stage of identifying and protecting innovation to assertion of IP assets and defense of IP assertions from others.
In the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a worker wheels perhaps the greatest archaeological find in human history into an enormous government warehouse, where it is stashed among thousands of other crates, perhaps never to be seen again. Unlike the Ark, trade secrets that businesses are seeking to protect can’t just be hidden away in a vault.
On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the administrative patent judges (APJs) of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) were not constitutionally appointed, and that the patent owner, Arthrex, Inc., is entitled to a remand for a rehearing by the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 593 U.S. _ (June 21, 2021).
When seeking patent protection for innovations in the gaming space, look for patentable subject matter in areas other than the rules of the game, the statistics underlying a game and the mathematical processes that are often interwoven into casino games.