More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 13, 2021

If you think patents are all about protecting something “technical” or something only a scientist or engineer could appreciate, you are mistaken. Patents can protect how things look as well as how they work. If you want to protect how something works, you need a Utility Patent.

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Designs Design Design Patent Patent 52

Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Let’s look into what those intangible assets might be, and how they can be protected. Names or logos used to sell a product may be protectable even if the product itself is nothing new. Names or logos used to sell a product may be protectable even if the product itself is nothing new. Yes, you certainly can.

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Intellectual Property IP Confidentiality Patent Application 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But to deal with different holidays in different states, emergency legislation was passed within weeks so the Office would know how to count deadlines. But to deal with different holidays in different states, emergency legislation was passed within weeks so the Office would know how to count deadlines.

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Registration Branding Brands Branding 59

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

When things are happening en masse at a business, just as in the TM system, w/o individualized attention and with a different agenda than the law’s, you can see the law’s protective features be minimized. We like how they sort us/how we get to identify with them? How much of that is cultural? Human desire for TMs?

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Fair Use Branding Brands Branding 45

43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2021

Several modern-day remedies were enacted to reduce the risk that IP owners would otherwise be able to recover only nominal damages—reasonable royalties for patents; statutory damages for © infringement; disgorgement of total profits for infringement of design patents. Nominal damages are often a species of general damages.

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IP Licensing Law Reporting 90

43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Standard debate assumes semi omniscience of designer neutrally concerned with social welfare. Bespoke systems are often underutilized by their own designers and outmoded. The paradox of getting your way and finding it unsatisfying. Examples: Vessel Hull Design Protection Act. Was more heavily used 1999-2003.

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IP Invention Designs Design 45

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. In recent times, globally more and more patent applications are being filed for blockchain technology.

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52