Troy, Michigan, April 4, 2024 – Young Basile, a leading law firm specializing in intellectual property, proudly announces that its president, Andrew Basile, has been recognized as the 15th best-performing U.S. patent attorney by Patexia, a distinguished intellectual...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Robert C. O’Loughlin as a Lawyer in the firm. Mr. O’Loughlin has a diverse practice focused on IP law including the strategic counseling, portfolio management, preparation, prosecution, assertions, enforcement and...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Bryce Hickam as a Technology Specialist in the firm. Dr. Hickam is a technical specialist providing support for the quantum technologies team. A chemistry major and mathematics minor as an undergraduate at Occidental...
California has historically maintained some of the strictest laws in the country regarding covenants not to compete. The California Business and Professions Code, Section 16600, provides that “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful...
Matthew Chess Associate Philip Koranteng Associate Christopher Sims Associate Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Matt Chess, Philip Koranteng, and Chris Sims as Lawyers in the firm. All three were participants in the YB Patent Apprentice program. Mr....
Young Basile Congratulates Our 2023 Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars. Bryan Lemanski Rising Star 2023 Eddie D. Woodworth Rising Star 2023 Daniel P. Aleksynas Super Lawyer 2023 Thomas P. Arden Super Lawyer 2023 George S. Fish Super Lawyer 2023 Francine B. Nesti Super...
Watch the YB Webinar: AI and Its Impact on Intellectual Property: Harnessing the Benefits While Avoiding the Pitfalls Original Broadcast: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Click here to view the Webinar This informative webinar explains opportunities – and pitfalls – in using...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Erik Chmelar as a Lawyer in the firm. Dr. Chmelar is a subject-matter expert in digital semiconductors and hardware/software systems. He captures and monetizes innovation through invention harvesting, patent...
by Stacie Farina and Will Kehoe A design patent can be a valuable asset in a patent portfolio for protecting the “ornamental design for an article of manufacture,” namely the visual characteristics embodied in, or applied to, an article.[1] However, questions often...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Brandon Roper as a Lawyer in the firm. Mr. Roper is a registered patent attorney with experience helping clients across all areas of intellectual property law. He has significant experience in patent harvesting and...
Employers Required to Give Severance Agreements a Second Look Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) called into question years of common business practices with its recent decision, forcing employers to reevaluate their well-established practices and...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Bryan Lemanski as a Lawyer in the firm. Mr. Lemanski focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent application preparation and prosecution. Mr. Lemanski has drafted and prosecuted...
Young Basile, a member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), is the only law firm to be a founding member of the consortium, which was tasked with growing the US quantum industry by the National Quantum Initiative Act (of 2018). Elliott Mason, a...
Young Basile Congratulates Our 2022 Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars. Stacie Farina Rising Star 2022 Ryan McCleary Rising Star 2022 Eddie Woodworth Rising Star 2022 George Fish Super Lawyer 2022 Francine Nesti Super Lawyer...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed sweeping changes to the rule defining unfair methods of competition that would upend decades of common business and employment practices. The proposed rule is a near complete ban on noncompete agreements between...
Congratulations to Young Basile Shareholder, Norman Sims for being awarded the Excellence in Intellectual Property Award by the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Michigan. The Excellence in Intellectual Property Award is awarded by the Intellectual...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Daniel Jang as a Patent Agent in the firm. Mr. Jang concentrates his efforts in patent preparation and prosecution and assists the firm in intellectual property matters. Mr. Jang works in a variety of technologies...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of John C Bacoch as a Lawyer in the firm. Mr. Bacoch focuses his practice on patent application preparation and prosecution in a wide variety of technologies. Mr. Bacoch’s broad technical background enables him to...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Jeremy C. Estes as Senior Counsel in the firm. Mr. Estes focuses his practice on patent application preparation and prosecution across a range of technologies including mechanical devices and systems, electronics,...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Philip Koranteng as a Patent Agent in the firm. Mr. Koranteng focuses his efforts on assisting the firm with patent preparation and prosecution matters. Mr. Koranteng is also a participant in the Young Basile Patent...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Andrew M. Mauer as a Lawyer in the firm. Mr. Maurer represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property law. Mr. Maurer has prepared and successfully prosecuted numerous patent applications to granted patents...
Young Basile is pleased to announce the addition of Benjamin A. Tigay as a Lawyer in the firm. Mr. Tigay concentrates his practice in complex commercial and employment disputes in state and federal courts. Mr. Tigay has litigated contract disputes, employment claims,...
By Elliott Mason, PhD Published: The Quantum Consortium, October 1, 2021 My prior article looked at trends in quantum computing patents. This second installment focuses on patent trends for quantum communications over the past decade, 2011–2020. The data detail...
By Elliott Mason, PhD Published: The Quantum Consortium, May 24, 2021, This article presents global quantum computing patent trends over the past decade. The data details patents and patent applications reported by patent offices worldwide with publication dates since...
Young Basile’s international trademark experience and knowledge provides cost effective and complete trademark strategies for guiding clients through Brexit. The United Kingdom (UK) is officially separating from the European Union (EU) in what has been dubbed...
Emerging companies are often advised to build a patent portfolio. While this is sound advice, portfolios are sometimes built in a haphazard manner, without alignment to business strategy. The resulting patents are frequently too narrow or too hard to enforce and the...
Young Basile firm president Andrew R. Basile, Jr. was a featured speaker at the Mobility Innovation in the 21st Century Conference in Novi, Michigan on November 15, 2016. Mr. Basile discussed innovation in the automotive industry and related complex intellectual...
We are pleased to announce that Young Basile has been ranked in the Tier 1 National category for Trademark Law by the 2017 Best Law Firms rankings. Young Basile was also ranked in Tier 1 in the regional rankings in Michigan in the Patent Law, Trademark Law and...
TROY, MI, September 22, 2016 – Troy, Michigan-based intellectual property law firm Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C. announced today that it is expanding its national presence with the addition of former Fish & Richardson associate Eric Keller in Boston....
