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| EGBERT LAW OFFICES PLLC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEYS |
| Who We Are... We are a full-service intellectual property law firm, offering our clients a range of domestic and international legal and agency services in areas including patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial designs, trade secrets, and protection and licensing of proprietary or confidential information at reasonable costs to the Client. Egbert Law Offices specializes in the representation of domestic and foreign clients in patent and trademark matters before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. For more information please call: 713-224-8080 |
| Firm News... Egbert Law Offices is pleased to announce that it has been named one of the top trademark law firms in the U.S. for the fifth consecutive year by Intellectual Property Today™ magazine. The ranking appears in the magazine's May 2008 edition. Intellectual Property Today™ is a nationally respected trade publication that features content relevant to patents, trademarks, copyright, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Rankings are determined by the total number of new trademark registrations issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2007. (05/2008) Egbert Law Offices has received a prestigious Corporation Service Company (CSC) Trademark Insider® Awards for 2007 for #1 Houston Law Firm for U.S. Trademark Filings in 2007. This is the second consecutive year that Egbert Law Offices has won this award. Egbert Law Offices is pleased to report that John S. Egbert is currently ranked 26th in the United States among trademark attorneys with 68 applications filed in the 4th Quarter of 2007 as reported in the Corporation Service Company (CSC) Trademark Insider®. More News... |
| Recent ELO Trademark Filings... Search recent Egbert Law Offices Trademark Filings at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office HERE. (Go to SEARCH TRADEMARKS, then go to STRUCTURED FORM SEARCH, then in the first SEARCH TERM blank type in quotes "John S Egbert", and in the second FIELD blank select ATTORNEY OF RECORD, then press SUBMIT QUERY. |
| Recent ELO Patent Filings... Search recent Egbert Law Offices Patent Filings at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office HERE. (Enter EGBERT in the Term 1 blank, and in the Field 1 Blank select ALL FIELDS. |
| Recent Patent and Trademark News... -United States Top Court Stays out of DVR Patent Fight The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders. The justices denied Dish's appeal Monday without comment. In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed with a lower court that DVRs distributed by Dish, formerly known as EchoStar Communications Corp., violated the software elements of Alviso,Calif.-based TiVo's patent. The ruling overturned the lower court's finding that Dish also infringed on the patent's hardware elements. TiVo sued in 2004, alleging that EchoStar, a satellite broadcaster, infringed on TiVo's patented technology that allows viewers to record one program while watching another. EchoStar Communications changed its name to Dish in late 2007. TiVo pioneered digital video recorders that allow viewers to pause, rewind and fast forward live television shows. The lower court had ordered Dish to shut down the 3 million digital video recorders used by its customers because they use TiVo's technology, but that order was put on hold pending appeal. Dish Network has said that the ruling would not affect its customers because the company had developed and distributed new DVR software that "does not infringe the Tivo patent at issue in the Federal Circuit's ruling." (Associated Press, 10/6/2008) -United States Senate Passes Controversial 'Copyright Czar' Bill The U.S. Senate has passed the controversial Pro-IP Bill, which would effectively create a "copyright czar" answering to the President. The bill now moves to the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed its own version of the bill in May. After differences in the two bills are worked out, the compromise bill will be passed to President Bush for his signature. As written, the IPEC's primary function is to develop a "joint strategic plan" to wage war on those who infringe copyrights, which include facilitating the sharing of information across law-enforcement agencies and between other countries. The House bill also contains language which would create its own copyright chief, which the House bill refers to as an "IP Enforcement Representative". But the House bill also would create an "Intellectual Property Enforcement Division" within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, which the DOJ objected to in the Senate bill. It would be responsible for criminal intellectual property enforcement. Both bills increase the penalties for copyright infringement. (ExtremeTech, 9/26/2008) |
| EGBERT LAW OFFICES, PLLC Patent, Trademark & Copyright Attorneys Patent,Trademark & Copyright Attorneys State National Building Located in Houston, Texas Since 1989 412 Main Street, 7th Floor Houston, Texas 77002 Voice: 713-224-8080 Fax: 713-223-4873 Email: mail@egbertlawoffices.com |
| We Serve the Following Locations in Texas... Houston, Katy, Sugar Land, Stafford, Missouri City, The Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, Tomball, Huntsville, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Denton, Plano, Longview, Texarkana, Marshall, Kingwood, Humble, Clear Lake, Baytown, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Pasadena, Texas City, Angleton, Freeport, Galveston, Jersey Village, Hempstead, Navasota, Bryan, College Station, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Round Rock, Austin, Waco, Tyler, Victoria, Amarillo, El Paso, Midland and Odessa. Locations of Our International Clients Include... Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom. |
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