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IP Due Diligence: Issues in M&A Transactions

Traverse Legal Blog

A main focus in most M&A transactions involves conducting intellectual property (IP) due diligence, including patent due diligence in order to properly assess risk involved in the potential transaction. What kind of process does the target have for protecting its invention? post-grant review, oppositions, etc.)

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A Seller’s Guide to Navigating Intellectual Property Law on Amazon

LexBlog IP

Patents A patent permits the owner to exclude others from making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing the invention of the patent. To legally put their own trademark on a product originally made by a third party, the seller should first obtain permission from the third party in writing. Registering trademarks with the U.S.

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Patent Assertion Entities: A Boon or a Bane?

Kashishipr

There are two sides to a coin, and therefore, while patent enforcing entities are always looked down on, there is another side to the story where they can do well to inventions – the extent of the same, however, stands questioned. Facts also suggest that 90 percent of these cases are decided in favor of the defendants.