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How To Get A Design Patent on A Product
A U.S. design patent is a way to protect visual characteristic(s)of a physical product (e.g. bottle or any product). Said another way, a design patent protects certain visual or ornamental features of the way a product looks. In particular, the visual or ornamental characteristics (not the function of the product
Design Patent
A design patent is a patent for a visual characteristic (or characteristics) that are either embodied in or applied to an article of manufacture. Meaning, it protects the visual and ornamental characteristic of an article and not the functional ones. Furthermore, a design patent protects only what is depicted in the patent application. It
What Can You Patent?
Have you ever wondered, what can you patent? You can patent almost anything as long as you can demonstrate that the invention is useful, novel and non-obvious. Examples include, methods of doing business, processes you use in your business, machines, articles that are manufactured, compositions and formulations. Here are some
Lawsuit to Proceed Against Founder of Facebook’s Virtual Reality Tech Company Oculus
Interesting news came out of San Francisco this past weekend when U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that a breach of contract claim brought by Total Recall Technologies (TRT) could proceed against Palmer Luckey and his company, founder of the highly publicized virtual reality technology company Oculus VR, Inc. after
Partners Law Group Help Client’s Obtain 3 U.S. Patents & 7 U.S. Trademark Registration.
PLG has much to celebrate this holiday season. Official United States Patent and Trademark Office-issued U.S. Trademark Registration certificates and -issued U.S. Patents have been flying through our doors for our clients. PLG assisted firm clients in registering the following 7 U.S. Trademarks: U.S. Trademark No. 4,860,319 for mark “No
What is a Patent?
A patent gives its owner (usually the inventor or the company that has rights to the inventions) an often very valuable and powerful property right. The “right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling” the inventions covered by the claims of your patent or “importing” the
