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Your Intellectual Property Attorney Can be Located in a Different State

LexBlog IP

For most intellectual property questions, your attorney can be located anywhere in the United States. This is because most of the relevant intellectual property laws involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are federal laws, which apply uniformly throughout the United States.

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Here’s What Businesses Need to Know About a Non-Disclosure Agreement

Kashishipr

In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties. They may opt for different ways to safeguard their IP, including IP registrations and protecting the IP assets with an NDA.

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Muzzling Transferors of Intellectual Property: Assignor Estoppel in Canada

IPilogue

Professor David Vaver is a Member of IP Osgoode’s Advisory Board and a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. . What if they got nothing extra from patenting or design registration? v Hologic, Inc., 594 US (2021). Employees may not be subject to assignor estoppel if the U.S.

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All About Provisional Patent Applications

Kashishipr

Usually, the inventor is under constant fear of leakage of information relating to the invention as a certain disclosure has to be made to the manufacturer. It is for this reason that inventors prefer signing a binding Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Why Should an Inventor File a Provisional Patent Application?

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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. Startups can protect both the source code and object code through copyright registration.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

ChatGPT responded with the following, which for the most part is accurate, but gets details such as the “founding date” wrong: Marshall Gerstein is a law firm based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in intellectual property law. Currently, under current laws, including those of the U.S.,