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Have you ever had the experience where you are talking to a group of people and someone doesn't believe you and they say "prove it?"  I mean, the gall of some people. What is helpful, in those situations is if someone is standing there and they've got your back saying, "no, she speaks the truth" (thereby shutting down the naysayers). Yep, always nice to have someone watching your back.  Of course, this all brings us to our word of the month: CORROBORATION .  According to Black's Law Dictionary , CORROBORATION means: 1. Confirmation or support by additional evidence or authority (corroboration of the witness's testimony).  2. Formal confirmation or ratification.  3. Confirmation or support by additional evidence of the date of invention or of a trademarks first use. So, a funny thing.  The other day I was looking at this definition and while I was thus looking, a young lady came up to me asking an intellectual property issue. Seems Young ...

The other day, a young lady came into my law library. Seems she had invented a device that help people breath filtered air.  It was her hope and dream that her invention would be patented and make her lots of money.   The kasus was that her patent claim was rejected and young lady was in our library to find out why. Now, in case you were wondering about the the picture associated with this blog, this is a Hamster shirt. What is a hamster shirt?  What it looks like is a hamster cage that wraps around a person.  Weird, but what do I know?  What I do know is that it is one of millions of patent applications that have been rejected over the years.   Why, you might ask, would a patent application be rejected?  Good question.  There are a number of reasons a patent might be rejected, such as: Invention is Obvious. Basically, this means that the invention’s claimed elements can be found in a number of prior works. Lack of Novelty...