News
May 2013 – Intellectual Property Today magazine has recognized The Marbury Law Group, PLLC as a "Top Trademark Firm" in the U.S. for trademarks filed in 2012.
In that year, Marbury had a 44.7% increase in the number of issued U.S. trademarks for our clients compared to 2011. IP Today has recognized Marbury as a "Top Trademark Firm" annually since 2009.
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May 2013 – The Marbury Law Group, PLLC has once again been recognized among the "Top Patent Firms" in the U.S. by Intellectual Property Today magazine.
In 2012, Marbury had a 17% increase in the number of issued U.S. patents for our clients compared to 2011. According to the list, Marbury continues a three-year trend of double-digit percent increase in number of patents issued to our clients.
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On March 16, 2013, U.S. patent law switched from a “first-to-invent” to a “first-inventor-to-file” system under the America Invents Act (AIA). A summary of the changes is available here.
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We are pleased to announce that Robert Scott has recently joined the firm as a new senior associate. Rob was most recently an in-house counsel and VP of Patent Administration with Wi-Lan Inc. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University and his JD from GMU.
We are also pleased to welcome Jeff Salomon, who joins Marbury as a new associate. Jeff received his BS in computer engineering from the University of Florida and his JD from the Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the New Hampshire School of Law). He most recently worked as an associate with Baker Hostetler LLP.
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A new USPTO fee schedule goes into effect March 19, 2013. While issue fees will decrease, filing fees and maintenance fees will increase, resulting in a net overall increase in patent application fees. Also, the new fee schedule penalizes patent applications filed with more than 20 claims or more than 3 independent claims. In fact, applicants filing applications containing 40 or more claims or 6 or more independent claims, will pay more than the cost of filing two separate applications under the 20/3 claim limit. It is thus recommended that applicants consider filing two or more separate applications on the same date, in order to stay under this new graded fee structure based on the number of claims filed. The full fee schedule is available here.
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Recent Patents
May 2013 – Congratulations to inventor Arne Ballantine on the issue of his one hundredth U.S. patent! U.S. Patent No. 8,445,150 entitled “Grid Frequency-Responsive Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System” for client Bloom Energy Corporation claims a method of adjusting the operation of a fuel cell system based on determining an instantaneous frequency of the power grid.
May 2013 – U.S. Patent No. 8,445,157 entitled “Fuel Cell Stack Components” for client Bloom Energy Corporation claims a method of operating a fuel cell stack having interconnects with fuel flow channels having a different cross sectional area located different areas of the interconnects.
October 2012 – U.S. Patent No. 8,279,786 B1, entitled “Methods and Systems for Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage,” for client Rivada Networks, LLC covers methods and systems for managing and monitoring allocation of RF spectrum resources based on time, space and frequency.
September 2012 – U.S. Patent No. 8,275,349 B2, entitled, “Method and System for Providing Tiered Priority Access to Communication Network Resources,” also for client Rivada Networks, LLC covers methods and systems to allocate cellular communication network resources to emergency response personnel during emergency situations which are detected by call volumes exceeding a predetermined maximum.
September 2012 – U.S. Patent No. 8,260,709 B2, entitled “Medical Data Encryption for Communication Over a Vulnerable System” for client mVisum, Inc. covers a method for securing patient medical information for communication by separately encrypting different parts of a patient medical record, and thus processing and communication of patient medical files by intermediary servers is enabled without risking disclosure of sensitive patient information if such servers are compromised.