The bill’s purpose is “to strengthen the position of the United States as the world’s leading innovator by amending title 35, United States Code, to protect the property rights of the inventors that grow the country’s economy.” The value and importance of patents is astounding, contributing over $800 billion in value to the U.S. [...]
U.S. The copyright office is calling for comprehensive reforms of an anti theft law, which critics say is that "Tinker is right" has been banned and white cap cyber security researchers have been kept in legal danger. In a report published last week, the office questions the “overall operation and effectiveness” of Section 1201 [...]
How do I get a trademark? To register a trademark, breeders and growers need to file a trademark application with the relevant government entity, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a federal mark or various state government offices for state marks. For both state and federal trademark registrations, an applicant typically must [...]
To promote the progress of science and the useful arts, the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to grant authors and inventors an exclusive right in their respective writings and discoveries for a limited term. In the case of invention, society properly demands of the inventor a disclosure of how to make and use the invention. [...]
For many years the US patent trademark office accepted patent as property rights which have always been considered relevant until proven now. Recent court decisions changes in patent law, and adverse PTAB rules established by USPTO, have all resulted in challenges to long hold practice that had been previously supported the innovation community. Without [...]
Utility patents are one of the three kinds of patents present in the USA. A utility patent may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture or composition of matter or any new or useful improvement. In other words, a utility patent is an exclusive [...]
