Articles by TJ Johnson
TJ Johnson is a 2L at the Washington College of Law pursuing a career in patent law. He is also a Junior Staff writer for the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. Prior to law school, TJ worked designing embedded motion tracking and control systems for the solar power industry. TJ’s main interests are in patent law relating to the mechanical and computer arts. TJ enjoys flying as a private pilot, aircraft and semiconductor design, and riding his bicycle.
Kodak has been buying up patents for a technology that competes with its old film technology in order to keep its dying film market alive. However, its impending bankruptcy most likely means that only the patents it holds can save it.
With one of the biggest changes in the patent system coming soon there has been a lot of talk regarding first-to-file. How does this compare to Canada’s change to a first-to-file system? What does this change mean to you as an inventor or businessperson and what should you plan to do about it?
