Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2024: Ones to Watch

Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner LLP is proud to have six attorneys recognized in the Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch 2024. This list recognizes attorneys who are earlier in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in…

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Firm Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2023: Ones to Watch

Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner LLP congratulates the following lawyers recognized in the 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in their respective practice areas: • Joshua P. Astin – Patent Law• Jeremy J. Gustrowsky – Patent Law•…

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5 Firm Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2022: Ones to Watch

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognizes attorneys who are earlier in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. Lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch are divided by geographic region and practice…

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IP Gotchas: Protecting Software IP

Software is enormously valuable. Of the top 10 largest companies today, only Saudi Aramco and Berkshire Hathaway are not in the software business, but even they could not survive without it. The others – Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tencent, Facebook,…

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IP Gotchas: Open Source Software

Many companies use open source software to produce goods and services, and many also actively develop software using open source libraries and modules. Open source software is commonly used for online software services, smart phone apps, downloadable executables, or embedded…

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IP Gotchas: Patenting Neural Networks

The demand for improvements in autonomous technology is accelerating. Memory and processing power has continued to grow exponentially cheaper, but the volume of data to process has exploded making it nearly impossible for traditional data analysis techniques to provide timely…

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Jeremy J. Gustrowsky and Michael M. Morris included in the Inaugural Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch inaugural list recognizes attorneys who have been in practice for 5-9 years for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. The Firm congratulates Jeremy and Mike for their recognition in the following…

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IP Gotchas: The Patent System

Many times Businesses form and thrive because of a revolutionary product like the smart phone, or because of a new service model like ride sharing. These products and services often include novel processes for solving old problems, or new and…

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IP Gotchas: Failing to Recognize Your Company’s Intellectual Property Assets

Companies routinely focus on development and marketing of new ideas, particularly in the early days as a startup. Protecting intellectual property is often set aside for later after the idea takes off and the marketplace has indicated “there is something…

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USPTO Gives New Guidance on Software Inventions

Earlier this month, the United State Patent and Trademark Office released new guidance for its Examiners to help them better determine when an invention is too abstract to be patentable. This latest effort by the Patent Office brings more clarity…

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Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, McNett & Henry LLP Promotes Two to Partnership

Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, McNett & Henry LLP is proud to announce that Jeremy Gustrowsky and Michael Morris have been named to the firm’s partnership, which was effective January 1, 2018. Jeremy Gustrowsky focuses on all areas of intellectual property. He…

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Software Patentability v.2.0.1.6: A Review of 2016 Federal Circuit Opinions

The January patent prosecution practice luncheon included a discussion of highlights from 2016 Federal Circuit opinions that addressed the patentability of software inventions. Although the Federal Circuit continued its trend of invalidating most of the software patents it reviewed, several…

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