Ramey & Browning is featured in H Texas Magazine‘s July issue. Our advertisement can be found on page 89. Attorneys pictured in the ad are Bill Ramey, Matt Schwaller, Melissa Schwaller, Harry Laxton and Peter Waugh. The ad highlights the firm's expertise in intellectual property. Ramey & Brownin...
Bill Ramey, managing partner of Ramey & Browning, has been chosen as a 2014 Top Houston Lawyer by H Texas Magazine. The award recognizes the top lawyers in the Houston marketplace. Bill earned the award for his Intellectual Property practice area. The website for the magazine can be found here. R...
How many people are tired of hearing “before enactment of TUTSA, Texas had no central law governing trade secrets,” or not being able to collect attorneys' fees under the common law misappropriation of trade secrets cause of action, or having Texas law rejected as the law governing your non-discl...
On July 11, 2014, beginning at 10:00 am, Bill Ramey is teaching a class at Texas A&M on what every entrepreneur needs to know about Intellectual Property (“IP”). The class is being held in room 108 Wagner on West campus and will include topics related to the identification of IP, the importance ...
Del Mar, California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE TOP TRIAL LAWYERS IN AMERICA ~PRESS RELEASE Attorney William P Ramey, III Named To Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is pleased to announce that attorney William P. Ramey...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office has cancelled the Redskins trademark registration. The decision can be found here at http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ under Proceeding No. 92046185. A petition was filed in August 2006 by six Native Am...
On June 16, 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board handed Ramey & Browning client Texas Children's Hospital a decisive win when the opposition of U.T. Physicians trademark application for Texas Fetal Center was sustained over Texas Children's Hospital's Trademark for Texas Children's Fetal Ce...
Ramey & Browning filed a patent infringement case against the Microsoft Corporation on May 22, 2014 on behalf of the firm client BioControl, LLC alleging infringement of claims of US Pat. No. 5,647,834 encompassing technology related to video games that are able to recognize emotions of the game ...
Ramey & Browning client Texas Children's Hospital prevailed on Friday against U.T. Physicians and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in its bid to prevent the trademark registration of Texas Fetal Center citing confusion with its trademark on Texas Children's Fetal Center in Opposition No. 91/2...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has revised its patent-related fees. The USPTO's fees can be viewed online.
Patent litigation often includes the presenting to the presiding judge from each party a technology tutorial. A technology tutorial should be non-argumentative and is used to explain the relevant technology. Sometimes a judge will only want a CD of the tutorials, other times a judge may also have...
On April 17, 2014, the team at Ramey & Browning successfully defeated Scottsdale Insurance Company's Motion for Summary Judgment seeking to be dismissed on policy coverage grounds in Lozano et al. v. Bank of America et al., Cause No. 2013-45238, pending in the 80th Judicial District Court of Harr...
On May 5, 2014, Judge Peca of the 205th Judicial District of Texas, Culberson County, in case no. 5049, denied Defendant Gerard Pallotta's Special Appearance, thereby ordering him to appear and answer the allegations made against him by Grand River Capital and Thomas Dans concerning theft of trad...
Texas has a statute that describes property rights in an individual's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness after that person's death. The statute is Property Code Chapter 26 and is also known as “the Buddy Holly Bill.” The chapter includes sections on unauthorized uses (§ 26.011) and p...
In the U.S., the most significant source of copyright law is the federal Copyright Act, which is available online.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court in Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health and Fitness, Inc., reversed the Federal Circuit as to the standard for awarding attorneys' fees in patent cases and defined what makes an exceptional case. The Court held “that an ‘exceptional' case is simply one that stands o...
Bill Ramey of Ramey & Browning will serve a s a judge for the The Rice Business Plan Competition, the world's richest and largest graduate-level student startup competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is Rice University's flagship in...
Bill Ramey of Ramey & Browning participated in the 2014 Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Championship Barbecue Cook-off from February 27th through March 1st with the team Sharks-R-Us. Over 300,000 people visited Reliant grounds during the event.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is conducting a series of roundtable discussions with the software community to share ideas, feedback, experiences, and insights on software-related patents. The USPTO refers to this series as its Software Partnership with the software communi...
En Banc CAFC Retains Cybor Rule of No Deference for Claim Construction, Citing Stare Decisis In a 6-4 decision, the en banc Federal Circuit concluded as a matter of stare decisis that the rule in Cybor that claim construction is an issue of law subject to de novo review on appeal will be retai...
This Thursday, February 20, Bill Ramey of Ramey & Browning will be a panelist at the Educational Symposium on Patent Strategy at the 2014 Texas Life Science Forum. He will join other leading attorneys in the field to answer questions and present information relating to intellectual property as it...
Top Ten Tips 1. Business entity selection – As attorneys, you know that the business entity your client has directly impacts their personal liability. If your client comes to you with IP, counsel them to consider entity formation. A third party may be able to reach personal assets which have noth...
Bill Ramey will be speaking this Friday, January 10, 2014, at the Northeast Harris County Bar Association's meeting. The topic will be “Ten Points Everyone Should Know About Intellectual Property”. The meeting will be at noon at the Veranda Restaurant at 2820 Chestnut Ridge Dr. in Kingwood 281/35...
Ramey & Browning is proud to sponsors the 2014 Texas A&M Ol'Army Cycling Team for the BP-MS150 ride from Houston to Austin in its effort to raise $100,000. The BP MS 150 is a two-day fundraising cycling ride organized by the National MS Society. In 2013, we are close to hitting our goal of $18 mi...
According to a company (Interbrand) that annually ranks top trademarks, Apple has passed Coca-Cola as the world's #1 trademark. The company's press release can be found here. For the past 13 years, Coca-Cola had been ranked as the top trademark. Now, Coca-Cola's trademark is valued at $93 Bil...
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