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Randall Erickson was profiled in a September 27, 2012 article titled “Patent Attorney helps budding Chicago area inventors” in the Wheaton Leader, a mysuburbanlife.com publication. The profile was also carried in a number of mysuburbanlife affiliated papers in other Chicago suburbs. The whole article can be viewed [here], an excerpt from the article follows: Obtaining a…

Eric Waltmire is a speaker at ISBA’s 2012 Cyberlaw Symposium, which is being held on June 21, 2012 at the ISBA Chicago Regional Office at 20 S. Clark St. The presentation is titled “Wikileaks: Liability for Publication or Hosting Information on the Internet.” Eric’s portion of the presentation will analyze potential liability surrounding Wikileaks’ publication…

Randall Erickson of the Erickson Law Group will teach a three credit-hour Intellectual Property Law Course at the College of DuPage again in the Fall 2009 term.  The course will provide an  overview of intellectual property law. It introduces students to concepts of ownership of intellectual property and includes coverage of patents, copyrights, trademarks and…

Eric Waltmire was quoted in an article titled “The Future Is…Later: A backlog of applications at the U.S. Patent Office has innovation in a stranglehold” [link]  at Entrepreneur.com.  The article described the difficulty some inventors have had resulting from the long delay between the date the application is filed and when the patent office examines…

On August 12, 2009, Eric Waltmire, patent attorney at the Erickson Law Group, will speak on patents at the Chicago chapter of SCORE’s workshop titled “New Product Development Workshop: How to Launch Your Product.” SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. The workshop…

On July 28, 2009, Eric Waltmire spoke on Patents at the July Saper Law Seminar. He provided the presentation via teleconference and the presentation covered basic patent law issue as well as issues related to software patents.  You can view the presentation here [link] .

On June 9, 2009, Eric Waltmire, Patent Attorney with the Erickson Law Group, presented a session at the Illinois State Bar Assication’s “Intellectual Property Essentials and IP on the Internet” all day seminar. Eric’s session covered Patent Issues on the Internet. An excerpt of his material is provided below. ************* Patenting Software, Internet Technologies, and…

Eric Waltmire of the Erickson Law Group, will be one of the speakers at a new product development workshop titled “From Conception To Inception”: Turn Your Dream From Idea To Opportunity hosted by SCORE business counselors of Chicago. At this all day workshop, Eric will discuss patents and the patent process, cover the differences between…

Eric Waltmire, patent attorney with the Erickson Law Group, will speak at the Saper Law Open Source Symposium on February 17, 2009 in Chicago. Whether you are in favor, opposed, or indifferent to software patents, it is important to know the implications and interplay between open source licensed work and patent rights. His presentation will…