Wendy Buskop, J.D., is the managing patent
attorney for The Buskop Law Group and has been writing patents for 27 years.
The firm can be contacted by mail at 4511 Dacoma St., Houston, TX 77092; by
phone at 713-403-7411; online at www.Buskoplaw.com; or by e-mail via Ruth
Gernhart, executive director, at Ruth.Gernhart@Buskoplaw.com.
Patent law is constantly changing, with new theories and defenses developed by various federal, district and state courts, as well as the legislature. Patent law is a federal law and related intellectual property includes trademarks (which are matters of federal and state law), copyrights (which are matters of federal law) and trade secrets (which are governed by state laws).