Patent Trademark Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. Keep it secret or file a patent ? There is a tradeoff when you file a patent. In exchange for the public disclosure of your proprietary information, the government is willing to give you a patent.
The IP Law Blog
JANUARY 18, 2024
Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) states, ” a trademark protects brand names and logos used on goods and services. A patent protects an invention. For example, if you invent a new kind of vacuum cleaner, you would apply for a patent to protect the invention itself.” then it is no longer a trade secret.
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LexBlog IP
JANUARY 18, 2024
Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) states, ” a trademark protects brand names and logos used on goods and services. A patent protects an invention. For example, if you invent a new kind of vacuum cleaner, you would apply for a patent to protect the invention itself.”
Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 6, 2024
It may help to pursue design patents on any nonfunctional ornamental features of your medical device. Explore filing design patent applications on such visual features. To speed up the examination of your design patent, submit a Rocket Docket request.
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) refer to the legal rights granted to individuals or businesses for their creations or inventions. There are several types of IPRs that startups should be aware of: Patents: Patents protect new inventions and grant exclusive rights to the inventor for a limited period.
Patent Trademark Blog
AUGUST 1, 2023
For the most part, foods generally do not appear on patents. Nonetheless, innovative foods can be patentable. Even the methods of making food can be patented. Like any other invention, a food concept must be novel and nonobvious in order to be patentable. Need to obtain a food patent?
Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 18, 2022
A helpful definition by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) identifies certain conditions for confidential information to be protectable: commercially valuable by being confidential; known only to a limited group of persons; and kept confidential by reasonable efforts. And inventions can be protected with patents.
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