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The Startup Garage by Tyler Jensen

Eric Hanscom — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:41:01 +0000

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They have worked with 50+ companies in a wide range of industries as well as run companies themselves. They value integrity, success, clarity and focus at The Startup Garage.

Their mission is to bring entrepreneurial dreams to life through personalized business planning services. Tyler Jensen is CEO and Founder, please visit his website at TheStartupGarage.com.

Design Patent issued for Workspace Partition

Eric Hanscom — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:22 +0000

InterContinental IP would like to announce the USPTO has issued a design patent on January 31, 2012 to our client Ursula Roberts of Carlsbad. She is the inventor of a new design for a Workspace Partition. Patent No. US D653,058 S, if you would like to view the new design go to the USPTO website and enter the patent number.

Eric Hanscom and Todd Langford selected to teach MCLE Courses on Patent Law

Eric Hanscom — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:36 +0000

Eric Hanscom and Todd Langford both have been selected to teach more MCLE courses on patent law. InterContinental IP is pleased to announce that both Eric Hanscom and Todd Langford will be teaching MCLE (legal continuing education courses) on patent law for 2012. Eric taught a course last year that Jason Castillo of Attorney Credits said was one of the most watched videos in the IP section. This year Todd will be teaching a course on the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) process, while Eric will co-teach two course with other attorneys. The first course will compare US intellectual property law with that of the European Union; the second will cover Office Action response methods, including traveling to USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia to personally argue cases. We will post some of the course material on-line as soon as it becomes available.

ICIP Defends 16 year old Trademark Holder

Eric Hanscom — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:05:13 +0000

ICIP successfully defends 16-year old trademark holder. In David Chan v. Corey Carrillo, the TTAB ruled in favor of ICIP’s client, 16-year old Corey Carrillo, dismissing Mr. Chan’s complaint with prejudice (which means he is out of luck in trying to challenge us again). Too bad a 16-year old trademark holder has to defend himself, but the TTAB did the right thing in this case.

Mr. Carrillo is the inventor, manufacturer, and distributor of the “Grip Ur Deck” customized and customizable grip tape decks for fingerboards.

Trademark Issued – EcoLeeser by Randy Hupp

Eric Hanscom — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:59:22 +0000

InterContinental IP would like to announce the USPTO has issued a registered trademark on December 20, 2011 to our client Randy Hupp for his company EcoLeeser, maker of the RokLees rockfish descending device. EcoLeeser is a company that designs, develops and sells fishing, environmental and waterborne products and solutions for various applications.

The RokLees is a rockfish descending device that assists fishermen in the safe release and recompression of fish suffering from barotrauma.

New Trademarks Issued

Eric Hanscom — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:19:39 +0000

InterContinental IP announces two new Trademarks recently issued to client Rick Cabados for water bottles. The first mark consists of the words “Good for Life” and a stylized wave in the lower left corner of the mark. The second is “Water for Life” and with the same wave in the lower left corner of the mark. Visit the USPTO website to view these, as well as other Trademarks issued. If you have a Trademark idea you would like to get issued please consider contacting our office or our website for information.

Inventing Profit – Season 2: Meet the Inventors

Eric Hanscom — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:33:57 +0000

InterContinental IP just hosted the first videotaping session for Season 2 of Inventing Profit.. This segment, called Meet the Inventors, featured Inventing Profit’s two hosts, InterContinental IP’s Managing Attorney Eric Hanscom and Joe Donoghue, President of Leardon Solutions, interview seven inventors who were at various stages of the inventing process. While the videotaping session was something of a marathon (6 hours total, 7 inventors, 10 mentors and 6 plates of fish tacos), Pixelscope Productions, who did the video end of things, was very pleased with the results.

The second season of Inventing Profit will also follow the star of the first season, inventor Randy Hupp, as he continues his march from idea to products on the shelves. At this weekend’s taping Randy brought some of the finished RokLees products (devices which release rockfish at depths at which the barotrauma they underwent while they were being hauled to the surface can be reversed). Everyone was quite impressed with the final product and we wish Randy continued success.

Among the other inventors videotaped were Julie Paulsen, featuring a dental bib, (an ICIP patent), Nanni, an inventor of double-opening boxer shorts, (two patents with ICIP), Trevor Craig, inventor of athletic swing device, Steve Watts , inventor of a handboard for bodysurfing, Jayne and Barry Brink, inventors of a toothbrush container with a sterilizing feature and Ursula Roberts, recently received Notice of Allowance on her first ICIP patent on a special needs educational device.

Pixelscope tells us the first video should be edited and ready for release in about 3 weeks. Stay tuned as we will post the video coverage when available.

Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce Trademark Issue

Eric Hanscom — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:26:57 +0000

InterContinental IP successfully defends Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce. For some reason, people keep picking on the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce on trademark issues. InterContinental IP has had to recently step in and rectify a couple of situations and sucessfully defend the Chamber’s trademarks. Most recently, the Chamber has had some problems with rouge members setting up LinkedIn groups using the Carlsbad Chamber’s name.

In the latest case, we had the Linkedin group dissolved and a new group, “Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce” has been formed and is presently administered by Chamber Executive VP, Toni Padron, as it should be.

We do however, have no problem with rouge members forming LinkedIn groups without using the chamber’s trademarks. May we suggest “RougeMembers@LinkedIN”? We understand that is available.

Changeable Designs gets Patent Issued

Eric Hanscom — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:12:34 +0000

ICIP is pleased to announce the first of several patents just issued for Cathy Connelly, Encinitas, CA and Barbara Egan, Cardiff by the Sea, CA of Changeable Designs. The invention covers a mounting bracket for a horse bridle or dog collar, into which a user can attach a removable and interchangeable decorative ornament. This is a good way to make sure your dog or horse is never dissed by other dogs or horses for being out of style.

Indeed, we suspect that sometime in the future, some animal behavior Ph.D. will come up with a study showing that well-dressed animals have higher self-esteem than those whose owners do not keep their pets looking good. Seriously through, Cathy and Barbara have been a pleasure to work with and we are glad to see them finally get their Patent issued.

Design Patent issued for Vacuum Splint

Eric Hanscom — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:22:11 +0000

Hartwell Medical has just received another patent to add to its rather lengthy and impressive IP
portfolio. This one is on a vacuum splint that can be used to immobilize a victim’s body for safe transportation.

Since design patents focus on the shape rather things like colors, we could not put into this patent application that the splint we used for the application was bright orange in color.

This splint should show up very well on the ski slopes, and the patent number will look good at the next EMS trade show.