If you’re an independent inventor looking to gain legal protection over your invention the concept of a Patent process may seem daunting, but this article will explain the legalities of a Patent and the processes required in detail to help you protect your invention. You may now be wondering if your invention is even able […]
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If you are a brand developer looking to trademark a name, logo or slogan of your brand and consequently gain legal protection, this article is for you! A detailed overview of the process is provided below to help you understand the process and gain a trademark that is federally protected for your brand. A trademark
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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 or how it works). Design
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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 is essential to make the drawings
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 examples of some of the
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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 it was bought by Facebook
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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 Hair Don’t Care”, U.S. Trademark
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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 invention into the country you
By Ivan Michultka-Calel The Second Circuit Court in New York has ruled once again and this time in favor of everyone’s favorite search engine, Google, just as the lower Federal District Court did. The dispute arose when a group of authors believed their copyrights had been infringed and so the Authors Guild sued Google. With
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Today Partners Law Group obtained confirmation that the court entered final judgment for its client DefensTech International, Inc., in the amount of $1,450,000 against Defendants William J. Murphy and C&W Murphy and Associates Inc. The hotly contested business litigation case included complex intellectual property issues and causes of action for Trademark Infringement, Breach of Fiduciary
