After a slow third quarter, venture capital investments rebounded in the last quarter of 2014, according to the MoneyTree Report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Reuters.

Venture capital investments in New England companies rose to $917 million invested in 106 companies for the 4th quarter, an 7%…

Near the end of 2013, Bloomberg BNA asked leading attorneys, government officials, and online experts for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2013 and on what policy areas they believed would be the most important to their practices in 2014. The responses were supposed to be short, like tweets…

Applicants with Rhode Island addresses filed 172 applications to register trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) during the fourth quarter of 2013. This represents a 17% decrease over the 208 trademark applications filed by Rhode Island owners during the fourth quarter of 2012, and a 27% decrease over the 235 trademark applications…

2013 turned out to be a typical year for new intellectual
property (patent, trademark and copyright) case filings in the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island.
 We got off to a fast
start, with 10 new intellectual property case filings in the first six months
of 2013 at the, 6 filings in June alone.…

NetJets Inc. v. IntelliJet Group, LLC, No. 2:12-CV-0059 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 19, 2013)

This recent decision highlights the importance of spending
some time thinking about whether a mark used in connection with software is
being used on a product (software), is being used for “software as a service,”
or is merely incidental to the underlying…

Courtesy of the Founders League, we have the first iteration of the “Providence Startup Map.”  While there are inevitable omissions, and it is not clear how the creators define a “startup,” the map demonstrates the tremendous growth in startups in Rhode Island over the past few years.  Most of the companies appear…

Venture capital investments in New England companies
jumped to $870 million invested in 109 companies in the third quarter of 2013,
according to the Money Tree Report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National
Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Reuters.

But only one of those companies is in Rhode Island,
netting a total of…