Patent Law Cases

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USPTO Patent Data Flippa (data bases on buying and selling businesses) Drafting and obtaining a patent might be the easiest part with respect to a new invention. Marketing a making…

Patent Docketing Software:   CPI      IPDS        PATTSY Patent Core (this site will analyze your examiner and provide insight on how your examiner will likely decide your case based on…

Drafting and filing a patent application is a time consuming process and takes skill. However, there are many books (including the Complete Patent Kit) which can assist you in this…

Patent Offices:  Canada European Patent Office (general EPO site)   European Patent Registrar (contains file wrappers for European filed applications)  Great Britain     Japan   UKAustralia    USPTO (recent patent office related notices) USPTO  Global Patent Search (search Chinese and other foreign patents)  India…

Before you set out to patent any invention, you should conduct or have some one else conduct a thorough patent search. There are two main reasons for this. First, you…

A lot of inventions are not patentable, even if they are new and non-obvious.  35 USC 101 --  See the US Patent Office Subject Matter eligibility Guidelines  Predict whether claim language…

Most information of companies is actually not patented or trademarked. Instead, the information exists in a form of intellectual property called trade secrets. To maintain information as a trade secret,…

Useful Links:  TMEP (Trademark Manual Examination Procedure Manual).   Trademark Goods Manual (search for the class for your goods/services) MADRID Protocol (WIPO)  Madrid Goods and Services Manager (lets you find the correct goods and international services…

Since 1978, Copyright exists as soon as you express your original idea onto some tangible medium. Much of the difficulty with copyright law centers around the investigation into whether or…