Tag: ip law

Today I spent my day, in the morning at least, stalking people. Well, that sounds a lot worse than it actually was. Essentially, when a client/inventor of a design wants to get a patent for their design, they must sign all of the proper documents. However, sometimes the people themselves do not file/sign the documents for a variety of reasons; forgetting about it, ignored it, moved companies on bad terms, or even died. The latter is quite rare I am told. Anyways, after searching for around 3 hours to find 15 different people I managed to find 14 of them, something the paralegals at the firm were not able to do for quite some time J. The last of the 15 I could not find because he had essentially fallen off of the face of the earth. There was no record of him whatsoever.   For lunch there was a food truck outside of the office and we all took great advantage of it. After lunch I sat with Ms. Emily Ashley and she walked me through an IDS, an “Information Disclosure Statement”. Essentially what it’s a massive bibliography, but slightly more extreme. By the end of the day I made my way around the office to say my goodbyes. It was sad, but also I could not have been more pleased with the experience. The firm was extraordinarily helpful with not only furthering my interest in IP law, but also helping me learn more about what it means to have a job in the real world.

 

 

Today was another day at the KDB office. Today I sat in on another meeting, this time with some Intel executives, in which we discussed various upgrades to the technology of Intel Corporation. The meeting was very interesting I then shadowed Ms. Moye as she filed some documents and sent them off to Richard Dyer, an attorney for KDB. I spoke with John Kavinsky about patents that are currently pending and he even let me submit a patent to the USPTO myself, after I proofed it of course. I then saw how applications and declarations are filed. Everything was generally pretty straightforward, just a lot of copy and pasting. But tomorrow I get to speak with more attorneys and learn how their lives work!

 

Today was another day at the KDB office in Durham. When I arrived at around 8:30 this morning, I was told I was going to be participating in a meeting with Mr. Kavinsky and some Facebook executives. Although I can’t legally say what we discussed, I can say that it was very, very interesting. The meeting lasted about one hour and afterwards I met with Ms. Courtney White where she walked me through how to proof a patent using the USPTO website and various other patent tools. It was actually quite interesting seeing all the hard work that goes into making sure a patent application is properly filed and sent off. I then shadowed Ms. Moye as she sent out a patent to an IP attorney on its deadline. There are a lot of steps that go into this process and the entire process took around 45 minuets to complete. I then got to do some proofing myself as I was assigned 10 patents to proof. Those took me about 3 hours in total to do. Overall the day was pretty eventful and riveting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today was my first day at KDB, a law firm in Durham that was willing to let me intern there for this week. KDB is a law firm based out of Raleigh and was co-founded by John Kavinsky, Matt’s dad. I went to their office and had lunch with them and talked to Ms. Rodney Moye and Mr. John Kavinsky. They spent their time helping me get adjusted to “Real-Job-Life”, as they put it. Ms. Moye made a power point presentation to me about what a patent is and what a patent application is as well. Ms. Kayla Kelly also helped me through the company’s website as well as the various websites she and her colleagues use on a daily basis. It was overall very interesting to learn how a normal day in the life of a patent attorney or a paralegal really is, and I look forward to learning even more the rest of this week!