Plain-English writing on patents, trademarks, and IP enforcement — for founders, in-house counsel, and curious operators.
How AI companies build defensible patent portfolios: claim scope, timing around architecture changes, and what Engineering and Legal navigate together.
A growing company's portfolio works only when every filing has a job. Lynch LLP works with mid-sized tech companies on portfolio, foreign filing, and IP diligence.
Herring Networks, Inc. —the company behind One America News Network—filed in San Diego Superior Court a workplace violence restraining order petition against Chelsea Goss, a social media content creator whose political commentary reaches 40 to 50 million views per month.
A patent strategy is also a fundraising asset. Lynch LLP works with founders on IP timing and investor readiness ahead of a raise.
The environment for AI patents keeps shifting. Lynch LLP works with companies on AI filing strategy and timing as that landscape moves.
Founders ask the same patent questions early on — patents vs. trademarks, provisionals, software, prior art, international. Lynch LLP works through them per company.
Eligibility is the central question for AI and software patents. Lynch LLP works on framing these inventions around their technical substance.
Patents protect how a product works; trademarks protect how customers find it. Lynch LLP helps startups build both into an IP strategy.
Eligibility is a recurring pressure point for user-interface and software inventions. Lynch LLP works on these questions in prosecution and litigation.
Understanding the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization In the ever-evolving landscape of global intellectual property (IP), the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) stands out as a beacon of progress and cooperation on the African continent.
A patent owner confronted with third-party sellers infringing their patent on Amazon now has the option of using Amazon's APEX procedures. An Amazon seller responding to an APEX complaint has difficult decisions to make.
When and how an invention becomes public can affect what counts against it later. Lynch LLP works on disclosure timing and international filing strategy.
Commercializing a process before seeking to patent it raises timing questions that can quietly decide whether protection is still available.
Utility patents cover how an invention works. Lynch LLP drafts and prosecutes utility patents across a wide range of technologies.
Whether patents fit a startup's strategy depends on the business. Lynch LLP works with early-stage companies on that decision and the filings that follow.
How developed does an idea need to be before it can be protected? Lynch LLP works with inventors from early concept through filing.
Patent Lawsuits with Litigation Financing Are Up 61% from 2021 If you’re not familiar, patent litigation financing refers to an industry of third-party businesses that finance patent litigation lawsuits, for example, in instances where a plaintiff cannot afford to go through liti
Patent prosecution moves from filing through examination to issuance. Lynch LLP handles each stage for inventors and companies.
International patent protection is a sequence of jurisdiction-specific decisions. Lynch LLP handles PCT and foreign filing strategy for clients.
Gilbert Hyatt filed hundreds of patents and spent decades fighting the USPTO over them. A look at one of patent history's strangest standoffs.
DAO: What is it, how does the law treat it, and how to start one What is a DAO? DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization, and it is a new type of organization that has arisen with the expansion of blockchain technologies into new spaces.
Buying an NFT and owning the copyright in the underlying art are different things. Lynch LLP untangles ownership questions in digital and creative work.
A Federal Circuit claim-construction dispute that turned on how a numerical value in a patent is read.
How numerical ranges are described in a patent application can shape its scope. Lynch LLP works on patent drafting and the disputes that follow.