Author: m blake

Client obtains registered trademark for THE PIZZA GAVONES

Please congratulate my client Frank Zabski of Milford, CT for obtaining a registered trademark for “The Pizza Gavones”.   Frank and his friends provide amusing pizza restaurant reviews under THE PIZZA GAVONES trademark.  The reviews can be seen on YOUTUBE.  Click  here to see the hilarious reviews.

The trademark can be seen here.

I will be teaching Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights at Milford Adult Education, September 23 and 30

HI All,

I will be giving a 2 evening class on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights at Milford Education on Thursday night September 23 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, and concluding on Thursday night September 30, from 6:30 pm to 8:00pm.    The classes will take place at Foran High School in Milford.   I will presenting an overview of Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights for new inventors, and business owners.   For more information, and to sign up go here.

I attended the Inventors Association of Connecticut Meeting on July 27, 2021

Yesterday, the Inventors Association of Connecticut (IACT) had their monthly meeting which I attended.   Bryan Mattimore was the speaker, and his topic was “Ways to Invent and Market Successful New Products”.   It was great seeing local inventors at the zoom meeting, and discussing inventing.   For more information about IACT go here.

Milford Bar Association Bar-B-Que was a big success

I attended the Milford Bar Assocation bar-b-que yesterday.  It was great catching up with old friends and new friends of the Milford Bar in a relaxed outdoor environment.  I am pretty sure I was the only patent attorney there!

The Milford Bar Association has been in existence since 1976. When it was originally formed, there were approximately 28 lawyers, not enough to fill up one page of the yellow pages advertisement. Currently there are 130 dues paying members of the Milford Bar Association, as well as over 50 exempt members consisting of the judiciary, court clerks, prosecutors, public defenders, and city attorneys.  For more information on the Milford Bar Association, go here.

I will be attending the National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meeting this week

I will be attending the annual meeting of NAPP for the next 3 days, July 19-21 via zoom.   This annual meeting will include informational sessions on a wide variety of topics to keep me up to date on developments in patents law.  Some topics to be discussed are: Developments in artificial intelligence/machine learning–practical take-aways for drafting and prosecution;  Current Developments in Utility Patent Law;  Current  Developments in Design Patent Law (incl. Hague).    I will also get to socialize with many of my colleagues who practice patent preparation and prosecution around the country and a few from outside the USA.   For more information on the NAPP annual meeting, go here.

“Intellectual Property Basics for small Businesses” talk for the Women’s Business Development Council went very well!

About 30 people signed up for my talk on Intellectual Property Basics for Small Businesses. The talk happened on zoom on July 14, 2021.   I received lots of a good questions from the group of mostly women, and a few men.   To find more information about the Women’s Business Development Council, go  here.