Founders – Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law

A Primer on Intellectual Property: The Basic Tools for You to Know

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon January 31, 2018March 13, 2022in antitrust, authors, Copyright, Copyright Office, copyright tips, Infringement, Innovation, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, IP tips, licensing, licensing executives society, litigation, patent damages, software patent, Supreme Court Rulings, trade secret, United States Patent & Trademark Office, USPTO, WIPO

Tomorrow (February 1, 2018), I am presenting a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program on the Basics of Intellectual property (IP) for the general attorney. With the value of IP assets a large factor of our economy, general practice attorneys frequently…

The Constitutional Foundations of IP – A Natural Rights Perspective

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon July 20, 2017March 13, 2022in Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, America, Benjamin Franklin, Copyright, George Washington, Infringement, Innovation, Innovation for Improving Lives, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, IP tips, les, licensing, licensing executives society, patent damages, philosophy, software patent, Supreme Court Rulings, thomas jefferson, United States Patent & Trademark Office, update, USPTO

Despite the value of intellectual properties to the United States, there have been numerous efforts of late to curtail those rights, rights which were enacted by our Founders to encourage inventors and creators. The Constitutionality of some of these rights…

Ray Van Dyke Teaches Intellectual Property Basics in Rockville, Maryland November 11, 2015

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon November 2, 2015March 13, 2022in antitrust, Copyright, Infringement, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, litigation, trade secret

As Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Section for the Bar Association of Montgomery County (BAMC), I am pleased to report that the IP Section is having a series of presentations on the fundamentals of intellectual property law at the Bar headquarters in…

To Kill a Patent System: What Would Atticus Finch Do?

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon March 13, 2015March 13, 2022in Copyright, Infringement, intellectual property, Inventors, les, licensing, licensing executives society, Supreme Court Rulings

Last Wednesday I had the privilege to speak about the importance of Intellectual Property in Washington, DC. As Chair of the Greater Washington, DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society, I and a friend, Sanjay Prasad, conducted the Introduction to…