17 Seconds #15
Useful, quick. One story. A lobsterman based in Portland, Maine, was giving a guest a tour of Casco Bay, which is notoriously tricky to navigate. As the lobsterman navigated the boat to and fro, the...
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Bite-sized patent and trademark goodness. There are about 30 million companies in the US, but there are only about 4 million trademarks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...
View ArticleDear Olympics: Don’t Steal My Logo!
The Who, What, Where, When, Why, And How Of Trademarks By Erik J. Heels First published 9/18/2015; Clockwork Design Group Blog; publisher: Clockwork Design Group, Inc. In September 2016, the logo for...
View ArticleSaracen’s Stewardship Of Maynard’s Mill Off To A Shaky Start
Stop Trashing Clock Tower Place! [Editor’s Note: A shorter version of this article appeared as a letter to the editor in Maynard’s local newspaper: “Saracen’s Stewardship Of Maynard’s Mill Off To A...
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Patent tips you should be able to speak in one breath. OK, maybe two breaths. Going in, your odds of getting a patent are about 50/50. The deck is stacked against inventors. US patent law has...
View Article2015 Red Sox Season Brain Dump
Before Dave Dombrowski starts doing his thing, I figured I should do my thing and give my $0.02 on the 2015 (and 2016) Red Sox season. The Starting Rotation My favorite stat from the 2004 Red Sox...
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Trademark tips that should fit snugly on the screen of your favorite device (cough, iPhone, cough). What should you do if a competitor has filed a trademark very similar to yours? You basically have...
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Are You Going To File Patents And Trademarks In Europe? That’s what Clocktower Law is going to ask from now on when foreign filing deadlines are approaching. Rather than asking generally about filing...
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Technology, Law, Baseball, Rock ‘n’ Roll. About LawLawLaw My name is Erik Heels, and this is my LawLawLawTM newsletter. Since 2001, LawLawLaw has documented trends in technology, law (mostly patents...
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Trademark Audit 101 In December 2014, shortly after creating 17 Seconds (which, in case you hadn’t noticed, is always published at 17:17 on the 17th of each month, because 17), I audited all of the...
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Clocktower Law @ Villageworks Earlier in February 2016, and after 15 years in Maynard’s Mill, Clocktower Law moved four miles north (which is “lateral” if you turn the map “sideways”*) to West Acton’s...
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