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March 6, 2010
Lang Patent Law LLC is pleased to announce its new address, effective March 1, 2010
This new location in the Fourth Street Professional Building not only provides additional space to accommodate the growing practice, but also provides access to a network of other professionals who can be relied upon to assist clients with needs that extend beyond intellectual property law. This new location, in the heart of Beaver, is easily accessible to clients located in the Greater Pittsburgh Area.
Lang Patent Law remains committed to providing high quality, personalized service to its clients. With this new location, enhanced availability and accessibility of William Lang to his clients will be realized. Please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Lang to discuss your intellectual property needs.
March 30, 2009
LangPatentLaw.com undergoes website redesign and search engine optimization
Updated and streamlined, Langpatentlaw.com’s new website design sets out to better serve our clients.
Most noticeably, the site has received a visual overhaul, providing a more welcoming and user-friendly online experience. Additionally, visitors can find expanded content and a more in-depth exploration of our services.
A new News & Events section will feature updates of Bill’s latest activity on Linkedin.com, where he offers advice to those with legal questions.
To better assist those seeking legal information online, the updated site has also been optimized for search engines such as Google.
We hope you will take a moment to explore the new site and learn more about Lang Patent Law. If you have any questions or comments, please use the Contact page to stay in touch.
January 9, 2009
William Lang answered a question on LinkedIn
How do I protect my process and software related intellectual property internationally?
William’s answer:
Scott,
You have already received some good answers, in particular the answer of Steve Olsen. Because Steve noted that Thailand and Burundi have not signed the patent cooperation treaty, you should check to see whether they will honor the filing date of an application filed in Germany or in the European Patent Office. Some countries that have not signed the PCT will provide the benefit of the filing date of an application in another country, provided the subsequent application is filed within one year and specifically claims the benefit of the earlier application.
If these two countries will honor the earlier filing date, then your initial filing will avoid the loss of the right to file in these countries from any public disclosure following your initial filing, provided you meet the necessary deadlines. In this case, you would benefit most from filing the initial application in Germany or in the EPO, and then filing a PCT application, as well as national phase applications in these two countries, within a year of your initial filing date.
If these two countries will not honor your initial filing, then you will need to file in these two countries before your initial disclosure.
Since you mentioned a specific interest in Australia, I will recommend Bill Bennett of Pizzeys to handle the Australian national phase application.
As others have noted, the cost of international filings is very expensive, including not only the filing fees in each country, but also "annuities" that are payable as often as every year in some countries, and attorney/agent fees in each country. Therefore, you should plan on filing as few applications as possible early in the process, delaying as many filings as much as possible within the required deadlines, until you see if your software succeeds commercially.