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News & Events
April 26, 2005
World Intellectual Property Day! See NH Governor John Lynch's Proclamation.
March 26, 2005
Law and Open Source Symposium - Concord, NH
March 10, 2005
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
January 27, 2005
NHBA IP Law Section Presents: Latest Patent Developments in Europe - Analyzing the Impact on Software & Biotech Companies
December 31, 2004
Year End Report on Section Activities
December 31, 2004
NH's Most 'Innovative' Organizations Named
November 11, 2004
Meeting Agenda
September 30, 2004
Meeting Agenda
May 25, 2004
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
January 29, 2004
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
November 20, 2003
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
September 18, 2003
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
June 10, 2003
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
May 1, 2002
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
March 20, 2002
NHBA IP Law Section Minutes
Updates and Annoucements
Lawyers on the Move
Phil Decker, an IP Section past President, joined Mesmer & Deleault of Manchester, NH. Mesmer & Deleault will maintain the former Decker Law Office office space in Portsmouth, NH to serve clients in Manchester, NH and on the seacoast.
Brian Colandreo, formerly of, inter alia, Fish & Richardson, recently joined Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger.
Andy Martin, formerly of Hayes-Soloway, joined Bourque & Associates.
Recent Developments in IP
- Effective January 31, 2005, the PTO changed trademark filing fees to provide incentive for electronic filing (e.g., $325 per class fee for electronic applications and $375 per class fee for paper applications, from the prior unitary $335 per class fee). Patent filing fees generally increased with the passage of H.R. 4818, effective December 8, 2004. Visit www.uspto.gov for more information.
- On January 27, 2005, the PTO initiated Trademark Document Retrieval (TDR) on its web site. File wrappers for almost all pending trademark applications and many registrations are now available online. http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow.
- Patent Sleuths Recognized - Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, Jon Dudas, paid tribute to Nashua, N.H. attorneys Scott Asmus and Andrew Cernota at the recent Independent Inventor Conference in Concord. The two lawyers recently found 14 original 18th and 19th century patents that will be added to the USPTO's public database of nearly 7 million patents. Fire destroyed the Patent Office in 1836 and records of 10,000 patents, including the 14 found at the Dartmouth College Library by Asmus and Cernota, were lost. To date, only about 2,800 of the lost patent records have been recovered. Under Secretary Dudas presented the pair with a framed copy of a 19th century patent drawing and praised the attorneys for helping the USPTO reclaim part of its history.
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