Richard Beem is featured in a video about the "Bra Baby" product in China, tinyurl.com/BeemLaw. This one minute story is capped by 15 seconds with patent attorney Richard Beem discussing Intellectual Property rights and enforcement in China.
Richard Beem was elected President of the AIPPI-US group on December 4, 2009, at the annual meeting in Washington, DC. AIPPI is the International Association for Protection of Intellectual Property, a world-wide association with about 8,000 members. Richard will be part of the US representatives to the AIPPI Congress in Paris, October 3-6, 2010.
Congratulations to Natalie Botero of Botero Design for her recent MarCom Platinum Award for the 2008 Beem Patent Law Firm design campaign. The campaign consisted of the firm brochure, pocket folder, and AIPPI event invitation and program. We appreciate the great work by Natalie and by Dan O’Brien of Vivid Ascent. The inspiration for the designs cam
Richard Beem, principal of Beem Patent Law Firm and member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI-US), recently hosted Mr. Kensuke UMEYAMA and Mr. Keiji IWATA from AIPPI-JAPAN, for a discussion of the little-known “secret patent” practice, rules, regulations, and federal statutes in the United States. Messrs.
The biggest issue facing the new Acting Under Secretary for IP and Director of the Patent Office is to make sure that meritorious patent applications are granted. Public backlash against grant and enforcement of patents on “dumb” inventions has led the Patent Office to reject almost all patent claims in a first office action, requiring the inventor/company to respond, at considerable legal expense, only to receive a final rejection.
As “patent reform” makes news; a historic collection of thirteen original U.S. patents signed by Presidents, Secretaries of State, and Attorneys General has been published on the Internet, by patent attorney Richard Beem.