Posted by admin on Oct 8, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Cleveland, Ohio.  It is projected that in 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue roughly 5,779 patents to Ohio inventors.  This record-breaking figure will continue for another year an upward trend in patent grants, as shown in the chart below: Unfortunately, despite continued growth in total patents issued, Ohio’s share of all issued United States patents will continue its downward trend.  It is projected that in 2014, Ohio inventors will account for about 1.75 percent of all issued United States patents.  For comparison, in 2004, Ohio inventors accounted for about 2.23 percent of all issued United States patents. Walters & Wasylyna is an Ohio-based law firm focusing on intellectual property matters and business litigation.  The firm is highly active in patent preparation and prosecution, both in the United States and around the world, as well as patent enforcement in the federal courts.  The firm represents clients of all sizes, from Fortune 500 Companies to sole...

Posted by Gary Walters on Mar 6, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Broadview Heights, Ohio.  Walters & Wasylyna connects with the community.  Our offices are approximately ten miles south of downtown Cleveland in the suburb of Broadview Heights.  We support the community and engage actively with fellow owners and executives to promote and grow local business.  Through these engagements, we have gotten to know a lot of other local business persons, number many them among our friends, and recommend the below businesses to you wholeheartedly should you have a need for their expertise.  Give them a call and let them know you heard about them from us.   Adam Barr Printer Services Northern Ohio Printing 216.398.0000 Dr. Robert Graves Chiropractor Pleasant Valley Chiropractic 216.520.6880 Carmen Sears-Edwards Property and Casualty Ins. Farmers Insurance 216.346.7223 Drew Karis Bank Branch Manager Keybank 440.457.5400 Elena Lougovskaia Immigration Attorney Lougovskaia Boop 216.920.3041 Emily McManamon Title Agency Erieview Title 440.835.4505 George Halle Health Insurance InSphere 440.567.2271 Jack Wygonski Residential Remodeling South Hills Builders 440.526.8030 Jason Chatal Mortgage Lending First Fed. Community Bank 440.580.0183 Jerry Kaye Realty Services Coldwell Banker 440.526.0500 James Orosz HVAC Service Air 440.888.3840 Jim Berg Advocare Nutrition 330.391.0085 Jim Gero Accounting Hobe & Lucas 216.524.8900 Jim Sadens Carpet Cleaning CleanPro 330.657.2113 Kevin Gluntz Business Attorney Gluntz Law 216.403.5461 Kurt Mears Financial Planning Advance Capital 800.457.4304 Matt Dorcik Auto Repair Friend-Lee Auto 440.582.7190 Robert Routson Life Insurance New York Life 216.520.8708 Sarah Lewan Skin Care The Aesthetic Center for Skin 440.283.8881 Sean Sullivan Fitness Trainer Fitness Together 440.550.4862 Tim Richards Roofing and Siding Expert Exteriors 330.617.3145   Gary L. Walters is a partner at Walters & Wasylyna.  He focuses on civil (business) litigation and intellectual property disputes.  Walters & Wasylyna is a litigation and patent...

Posted by Gary Walters on Mar 4, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Cleveland, Ohio. Walters & Wasylyna LLC takes pride in offering top-drawer legal services at competitive rates. Whether we are your choice for primary counsel in a local or far-flung dispute, or you’re from outside Ohio and we’re your choice for local counsel in Ohio, we will work with you to achieve your goals and objectives. We focus on business litigation and intellectual property (IP). We often handle contract disputes, business torts, professional malpractice, financial-based litigation, and all types of intellectual property infringement actions (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets). We will also help you to protect your intellectual property by drafting patents, memorializing your trademarks and copyrights, and making all necessary filings with the United States Patent and Trademark and Copyright...

Posted by admin on Mar 4, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Cleveland, Ohio.  Trademarks serve two purposes.  They protect the reputation of the person or company providing goods and services by helping to ensure that the mark is only going to be associated with their product, and they protect the consumer by allowing him or her to associate the product with a person or company they already know. The owner of a trademark may establish rights in that mark whether or not it is registered with the USPTO; however, registration gives the owner several rights:  The public is deemed to have notice of your mark. Courts will “presume” that you own the mark and have exclusive rights to it in connection with the goods or services listed in the registration.  (The person or entity accused of infringement will have to overcome this “presumption.” ) You may sue in federal court. You may use the US registration to extend the registration to other countries. You have additional means to prevent the importation of infringing goods. One may use “TM” for a trademark and “SM” for a service mark to let others know of your claim to the mark whether or not you have registered the mark with the USPTO.  The ® symbol, however, is reserved for marks that have actually been registered. Do you need assistance with a trademark or other intellectual property?  Walters & Wasylyna can help–give us a call. Gary L. Walters is a partner at Walters & Wasylyna.  He focuses on civil (business) litigation and intellectual property disputes.  Walters & Wasylyna is a litigation, intellectual property, and patent...

Posted by admin on Feb 27, 2014 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Bitcoins are a form of digital currency.  They are the digital creations of software in a peer-to-peer system, meaning that there is no central server location, no owner.  Bitcoins, the system, was created by someone going under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.  Bitcoins are regulated by no one (no governmental agency) and by everyone (every “miner” using the software system).  Each miner has full view of the system, except for a complex private password held by each user of the system.  This highly private password is what allows holders of bitcoins to do so with confidence.  Transactions are essentially free and anonymous, two of the strongest appeals of virtual currency. Bitcoins are acquired generally in one of three ways.  First, they are “mined.”  The software itself maintains the bitcoin system through a sort of complex mathematical problem that today takes enormous computing power to “solve.”  The problem takes the form of following strict cryptographic rules to pack the ongoing bitcoin transactions into a “blockchain,” which is approved by a consensus of miners in the system through the operation of the software.  Once the blockchain is completed (solved) it takes its place in the chain, the system releases 25 bitcoins to the solver, and the next blockchain begins.  In the earliest days, one might solve one of these problems with a home computer and the reward (bounty) then, like now, would be the release of 25 bitcoins.  Today, however, the computer power to solve the problems and release the bitcoins is enormous and the problems are generally solved by pools of miners with machines running around the clock.   The miners’ shares will be determined by the computational power each brings to the mining.  Each solution takes a few minutes and the 25 bitcoins usually go out to individual miners in small fractions.   The machines largely used for mining today are not “computers” in the traditional sense, but special processing machines that do nothing but efficiently mine at high rates of speed.  Anyone can participate.  To do so meaningfully will require an investment of several thousand dollars.  Note that bitcoins will continue to be released at increasingly slower rates until approximately 2140, when the system will reach the prescribed limit of 21 million bitcoins.  There are slightly more than 12 million in circulation as this is being written.   The machines mining bitcoins are valued in the tens of millions of dollars and the electricity being used for mining would supply a small country. Second, one may simply buy bitcoins.  The most common way is to go to one of the online exchanges, where you can lay down cash for the bitcoins.  There are several large exchanges.  Bitcoins are in the news today because the largest of the exchanges—Mt.Gox—has gone off line, allegedly losing more than $300 million through theft.  It remains to be seen whether bitcoins will survive this...