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DALLAS – The intellectual property and commercial litigation firm Ross Law Firm has been recognized among the nation's Best Law Firms by U.S. News & World Report and The Best Lawyers in America. The firm is listed in the top tiers for North Texas-area law firms in the areas of patent litigation ...

Steven E. Ross, founder and managing member of Ross Law Firm, has been elected a “Master of the Bench” by the prestigious William “Mac” Taylor American Inn of Court. The William “Mac” Taylor Inn of Court is one of nearly 400 chartered American Inns of Court, an organization that was founded in t...

“We want a patent on our new product.” It's often the case that a business will develop a new product and then contact a patent attorney interested in getting a patent on their “product.” While a patent covering one product–and only that product–has some value, a patent that covers the product–a...

In the realm of intellectual property, trade secrets protection tends to be the most neglected category. Perhaps this comes from the fact that unlike patents, trademarks, and copyrights, trade secrets do not receive any type of official certificate from the government. They are often nebulous an...

The recent Supreme Court decision in Alice v. CLS Bank has left the patent world in a quandary regarding the patentability of software and computer-implemented inventions. As so often happens when the Supreme Court weighs in on patent law its decision raises more questions than it answers. Oddly...

Most who are at all familiar with the Patent system know that you can't secure a patent on something that is already known. That's common sense. Many are not aware, however, that the Patent Laws of the United States (and most other countries) require not only novelty (i.e., that the invention is...

In its recent Cutsforth v. MotivePower decision, the Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB inter partes review (IPR) decision because the Board failed to explain its reasons for finding claims obvious. Cutsworth involved US Patent No. 7,990,018, which is directed to a removable brush holder that can be...