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 ...
City To Consider New Leases For Fintech Firm, Senator's Office
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Leland-based Firm's Product Earns Innovation Award
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Tree Alliance Announces New Board Members
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Ullucci Named Founding Director Of Physical Therapy Doctoral Program
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TD Bank Promotes Johnson To Retail Market President Of Mid-South Metro
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The funding will launch joint Novant Health and UNC School of Medicine studies focusing on evaluating tools that expand access to prenatal s...
The idea for the park, which occupies about 400 acres near the county line between New Hanover and Pender counties, emerged in the mid-2000s...
The amphitheater improvements included installing more than 2,600 square feet of synthetic lawn inside a new fenced area, adding just over 5...
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