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In order for the patent application to fulfill the utility requirement, the claimed invention must be "useful" for some purpose either explicitly or implicitly. Most often the applicant will make explicit utility statement in a patent application but this is not always necessary. Utility problem usually arises in one of the two scenarios. Firstly why [...]
Intellectual Property is one the most prized possessions of any business. However if you are a small business protecting it, might be a challenge. There are several reasons for this but the biggest one is financial. Patenting inventions is extremely expensive, starting at $530 just for filing and processing the patent, with a further $300 [...]
"Trademark" is an incredibly flexible term. As the United States of Patent and Trademark Office defines it, a trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of goods of one party form those of others. However, this technical definition hardly scratches the surface of vast pool of potential trademark. [...]
Intellectual Property is one of the most prized possessions of any business. However, if you are small business protecting it might be a challenge. There are many reasons for this but biggest one is financial. Patenting invention is extremely expensive starting at $530 just for filing and processing the patent, with a further $300 in early [...]
A complete and exhaustive rejection of all the various procedural options that exists after various types of rejection have been received goes beyond the scope of thus primer. Nevertheless what follows is intended to give some basic understanding of the consequences and options facing patent applicants after they have received rejection. And while this primer [...]
What is a common law trademark? A common law trademark is a type of infringement protection for intellectual property in which property is used in commerce before the federal registration of the mark. The U.S. common law starts when you use the mark for the first time in your geographical area. It endures with continual, [...]
The cost of hiring a attorney to draft a patent application can price some inventors out of the market, so they are left with the choice of doing something of their own. Inventors who are going to attempt to draft their own patent application need to go into process keeping their eyes open wide, realize [...]
Inventors who are willing to draft their own patent application need to go into the process with their eyed wide open, realizing that the resulting patent application will be better if a patent attorney is involved in drafting, and most importantly understand that numerous things that you can and likely will do that will lead [...]
The concept of valuation in the intellectual property and other intangible assets of a company is new as compared to other concept of intellectual property law. The value of an IP is monetary compensation that is expected to be received from licensing of an IP or form sale or exchange of other intangible asset. The [...]
A Patent search is used to determine whether the time and expense of moving forward with a patent application is a worthwhile endeavor. The patent process can be expensive expensive so the last thing you want to do is spend a lot of time and money preparing and filling an application when there is easy [...]
