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	<title>Bambi Faivre Walters, PC</title>
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	<description>Virginia patent, trademark, copyright, nonprofit attorney</description>
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		<title>The Snitch in Your Pocket: Is it Legal for the Government to Track Personal Cell Phones without a Warrant?</title>
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By Emily S., William &#38; Mary Class of 2011

While the country was in an uproar about government wiretapping during the Bush administration, another type of government access to personal information was being largely overlooked.  On February 19, 2010 NEWSWEEK ran a story revealing that federal prosecutors have been seeking telecommunications companies’ internal data showing the [...]


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		<title>May 25-27 IRS Tax Exempt Workshop in DC</title>
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Are you an exempt organization administrator, active volunteer or a student considering a career in the nonprofit sector? This spring, for the first time, the IRS will offer its popular workshop for Small and Mid-Sized Organizations in cooperation with two academic institutions, Seton Hall University (South Orange, NJ- March 11), and West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV-April 16).
Each one-day workshop, presented by experienced [...]


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		<title>What Individual Inventors Should Know</title>
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Are you an ambitious inventor and filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)?  If you are such an ambitious inventor, there are things you may not know that can help you get a patent.
A “pro se” application is filed by the inventor representing himself or herself without a registered [...]


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		<title>First Five Steps for Inventor Entrepreneurs (Inventrapreneurs)</title>
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The term &#8220;inventrapreneur&#8221; (for purposes of this blog) means an inventor entrepreneur.  While one might think that an inventor implies an entrepreneur or vice versa, they are not the same.  An inventrapreneur is an inventor who actively screens ideas and does his/her homework on business feasibility.  Below are what I refer to as the &#8220;First [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.patent-trademark-law.com/patent-articles/pro-bono-legal-aid-independent-inventors/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Pro Bono Legal Aid for Independent Inventors'>Pro Bono Legal Aid for Independent Inventors</a> <small> Imagine if each registered patent attorney and patent agent provided pro bono services to independent inventors.  Who would administer legal aid to independent inventors?  Who would decide which independent...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.patent-trademark-law.com/inventor-entrepreneur-updates/innovation-agenda-green-jobs-future/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Innovation Agenda and Green Jobs of the Future'>The Innovation Agenda and Green Jobs of the Future</a> <small> For a fabulous article by Mark Esper on human innovation and American creativity for green technology, see his article on The Innovative Agenda and Green Jobs of the Future...</small></li>
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		<title>Federal Courts Crackdown on Generic Trademarks</title>
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Author:  Emily W., William &#38; Mary Intern
In 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) made two important rulings regarding generic trademarks.  In November, the CAFC rejected an attempt to trademark Mattress.com.  A few months before, a similar ruling was made saying that Hotels.com cannot be trademarked.  The hotel booking website argued [...]


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		<title>IRS e-news on business start up costs</title>
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There is a special tax treatment for expenses you incur before you actually begin business operations.
Related links:

Business      Start-Up and Organizational Costs
Business      Start-Up Costs



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		<title>Liability of Online Auctioneers &#8211; Auction Sites and Brand Owners Hammer it Out</title>
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Author:  Emily S, William &#38; Mary Intern
In today’s economy, online auctions are often viewed as a strategy to beat the credit crunch. Those unwanted gifts and unused purchases can all be put on Internet auction sites and sold for a bit of much-needed cash. Not all sellers have such innocent motives, however, and the [...]


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		<title>USPTO Update on the Global Trademark Form</title>
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Author:  Emily S., William &#38; Mary Intern

On September 12, 2009 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced a new “global trademark form.” This new electronic filing option allows virtually all trademark documents to be filed online; only in very rare cases does any trademark document need to be submitted as a paper copy. The [...]


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		<title>After all, anthrax can’t be sent over the internet</title>
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Author:  Emily W., William &#38; Mary Student Intern
To most of us, the anthrax scare of Fall 2001 is a distant memory.  But, almost nine years later, the government is still dealing with the fallout of this security breach.  The US Copyright Office, located near the Capitol and Congress in the heart of D.C., was one [...]


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		<link>http://www.patent-trademark-law.com/copyright-articles/mandatory-electronic-copyright-claim-filing/</link>
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		<title>About Angels</title>
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Several years ago, my family and I were vacationing in Cancun and much of the beach had eroded away with ginormous boulders erupting out of the sand.  There were plenty of things about that trip that were unpleasant, but the loss of the sand and dismal looking cement boulders took away much of the beauty.  [...]


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