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By: Adam Brookman You receive an email message from a kindly Chinese domain name registrar who warns you that a company has applied to register your name (or trademark) with various Asian suffixes (e.g., .cn, .tw, .asia). The email is in broken English giving it instant credibility: Dear CEO, We are the domain name registration…

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Client Spotlights: Badger Meter, Ladish and Twin Disc Named Among Forbes 200 Best Small Companies

Boyle Fredrickson congratulates three clients – Badger Meter Inc., Ladish Co. and Twin Disc Inc. – for their listing among Forbes magazine’s 200 Best Small Companies. Announced this past October, Forbes’ list of the 200 Best Small Companies is based on performance as measured by earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity. “It’s a…

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Amid Criticism, Congress Limits Spending at Patent and Trademark Office

This past December, the United States Congress placed a spending limit on the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which may restrict its ability to make progress on the estimated 1.2 million pending applications, deepening the existing backlog. USPTO officials were disappointed not to receive a $100 million budgetary provision which would have been…

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Boyle Fredrickson Celebrates 10th Anniversary; Names Durst to Board

Boyle Fredrickson, Wisconsin’s largest intellectual property law firm, officially celebrated its 10th anniversary in December of 2009. Ten years ago, shareholders James Boyle, John Fredrickson, Timothy Newholm, David Stein and Michael Gratz founded the Milwaukee-based IP law firm now known simply as Boyle Fredrickson. “A large part of our success is derived from our singular…

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Baxter Profiled in Wisconsin Law Journal

Congratulations to Boyle Fredrickson shareholder and Board Member Keith Baxter, recently profiled by the Wisconsin Law Journal. The July 19, 2010 article includes reflections from Baxter on a variety of intellectual property and other legal matters. The article can be found by clicking here: http://www.wislawjournal.com/article.cfm/2010/07/19/IP-law-continues-to-create-challenges.

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Boyle Fredrickson Adds Costello Kreger

Kyle Costello and Kevin Kreger have joined Boyle Fredrickson, Wisconsin’s largest intellectual property law firm, as practicing attorneys. With the addition of Costello and Kreger, Boyle Fredrickson now boasts 23 attorneys specializing in a wide range of intellectual property matters. The firm also employs 18 additional staff members that assist in serving the firm’s many…

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Businesses Need to Develop and Adhere to Document Retention Policies

According to Boyle Fredrickson attorney Erin Fay, the vast majority of most companies’ business-related information is stored electronically, yet document retention and deletion policies are failing to fully account for most organizations’ documents. “Recent data suggests more than 93 percent of all commercial documents are produced and stored on computers and never printed,” explains Fay.…

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Brayer Discusses Maximizing the Value of an IP Portfolio at WISACCA Conference

At the annual conference of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (WISACCA), Boyle Fredrickson shareholder Michael Brayer collaborated with Zhibin Ren of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company to discuss how companies can maximize the value provided by their intellectual property portfolios using real world examples of business method patents. Ren described business…

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