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Kairos Social Solutions, Inc. was granted patent for a device, system, and method of preventing unauthorized recording of visual content displayed on an electronic device. [Illustration: Dallas Innovates. Select drawings from USPTO patent no. 9740860]

Dallas Invents: 56 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 22

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ranked no. 14 in patent production out of 250 metros nationally. Check out patents granted to Tinder, Amazon, Dell, State Farm, Halliburton, and more.
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Historic IP Decision: The Future of ‘Immoral,’ ‘Scandalous’ and ‘Disparaging’ Trademarks
by | Jul 7, 2017
A recent Supreme Court decision will likely have wide-ranging impact on the field of trademarks. Polsinelli’s Kathryn Allen and Adam Rehm discuss what the highly-anticipated IP decision means — and last week's USPTO guidance.
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Patent Office to Hire More Examiners, Ease Backlog
by | Aug 19, 2016
To combat that backlog, the USPTO will hire 100 new employees at its regional offices in Dallas, Cornell University, Denver and Detroit, but just about 70 in Silicon Valley.
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Dallas Has Its Fair Share of Patent Attorneys
by | Feb 22, 2016
For example, the State Bar of Texas told me that its Intellectual Property Law Section has 582 active members from Dallas County. But putting that number in perspective is difficult, because the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law declined to share statistics on its members’ geography.
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Katherine Berry

Beyond Books: Dallas Public Library Answers Inventors’ Questions

by | Jan 22, 2016
Patent and Trademark Resource Centers are designed to serve independent inventors and small businesses whose understanding of intellectual property issues may be rudimentary.
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