In 1973 the European Patent Convention was signed in order to set up a common patent office to examine patent applications for any European country that wished to participate.  The convention went into effect in 1978 with the opening of the...

Ladas attorney John Richards has had his article titled: “European Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court” published in the August 2022 issue of Financier Worldwide...

The Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) of 2020 went into effect on December 18, 2021 with certain remaining changes coming into force on December 1, 2022.  To provide guidance and help brand owners understand how these changes will affect their...

On Friday, April 22nd, Ladas & Parry attorney John Richards gave a presentation during the 29th Annual Fordham Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference on the topic of plausibility during the session entitled: “5C. International...

Ladas & Parry would like to congratulate the student category winners of the 2021 INTA Ladas Memorial Award Competition for having their papers published in the: INTA Trademark Reporter, November–December 2021, Vol. 111 No. 6: Cultural...

Is an invention created by a machine using artificial intelligence patentable? Ladas attorney John Richards writes about this question in his new article: “DABUS & AUKUS: A Tale of Three Approaches to the Question of Whether an Invention...