Russell is a native of Wilmington, N.C. and has been practicing law in Eastern N.C. since 2004. He graduated in 1998 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with degrees in Biology and Psychology. For the next few years
Every civil lawsuit or cause of action that can be filed in North Carolina has a time limit beyond which the lawsuit can no longer be filed. This is referred to as a Statute of Limitations. T ...
A trademark is any device that is used by a person or business to identify and distinguish their goods from the goods offered by other people or businesses. The most commonly registered trademar ...
Entrepreneurs are often dissuaded from trying to get a patent on their invention for a number of different reasons. Foremost is the concern that a large company can steal the invention forcing the ...
Companies with successful brands can expand the reach of those brands by allowing other companies to produce goods and services under the trademark owner’s brand. Other companies may want to ...
Consumers are accustomed to seeing words and images used as brand names but the federal law that protects trademark rights defines a trademark to include any device or symbol that identifies a source ...
When businesses create new and interesting designs, logos, band names and slogans, one of the first problems they tend to worry about is caused by the potential popularity of that design – preve ...
United States law gives inventors a right to a patent if they meet the requirements of the Patent Act. Prior articles have discussed the requirements of 35 U.S.C. §101 (Section 101). This a ...
After Rapid Litigation Management, the Federal Circuit issued two more cases under 35 U.S.C. § 101 that contribute heavily to this discussion[1]. In both of these cases, the Court decide ...
In the first two installments of this article, we discussed the U.S. Supreme Court cases that interpret 35 U.S.C. §101. Next, we will turn to the Federal Circuit[1] cases acting on those ...
Protecting valuable business information requires careful planning, as there is no system of registration that proves a company has a protectable trade secret. It doesn’t help that the standard ...
After deciding Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 566 U.S. 66, 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012), the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case involving a software-enabled invention and clarified the ...
Over the past several years, there have been a lot of high-profile lawsuits concerning what kinds of biotechnology inventions are eligible for patent protection. In essence, patent owners hav ...
Untappd Taps Out Of Downtown Wilmington Office Building
Cece Nunn
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Jan 30, 2023
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ILM To Chart Future Path In Forthcoming Report
Miriah Hamrick
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Jan 30, 2023
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Boombalatti’s Homemade Ice Cream became a local favorite when it first opened in The Forum on Military Cutoff Road in 1999. When Wes and Kri...
With more than 15 years of experience in the wood chip industry, Taner Basaga has maintained key relationships with loggers in the region. “...
Plans for major improvements fell by the wayside, delayed by life and the home’s overwhelming degree of deterioration, which placed the prop...
The 2023 WilmingtonBiz: Book on Business is an annual publication showcasing the Wilmington region as a center of business.