06Jan
The Right Trademark: 3 Key Steps to Secure Your Brand
Trademark Classifications
There are generally five categories of trademark classifications: generic, descriptive, suggestive, arbitrary and fanciful. Most trademarks fall within these categories once you break them down to their basics. When you consider the names and brands that surround almost every business—whether officially or traditionally—it's easy to recognize the importance of choosing the right trademark for your business or product.Wait: Just What is a Trademark?
People sometimes become confused as to what exactly makes a trademark. Similarly, there is quite a bit of confusion surrounding the difference between a trademark and a service mark. While there are a multitude of nuanced points...
18Dec
Why a Trademark Attorney Is Vital for Brand Protection
Trademark Attorney
For small or new businesses, the logical answer to this question sometimes seems to be, yes. After all, you can save quite a bit of money by filing your trademark applications yourselves, right? Well, actually... yes. And no. While individuals and small companies can, in fact, save many upfront on trademark or patent attorney fees by doing the work themselves, or by using non-attorney companies that promise a one-size-fits-all solution, quite often this can result in huge fees down the road. Not only does the Trademark Office frequently issue rejections for improperly filed applications, those attempting to pursue...
16Dec
Mastering Patent Application Pitfalls: 3 Critical Tips
Avoiding Patent Application Pitfalls with Prior Art Insights
Discover 3 critical tips to master patent application pitfalls and enhance your invention’s standout features without overemphasizing prior art.Describing Prior Art
Awareness of prior art is necessary in a patent application, but the more detailed your descriptions of it are, the more likely you may be to run into trouble. Avoid describing prior art beyond the hard facts of the invention, and before you actually get into the descriptions, learn about the right way to talk discuss the prior art in your application.Comparing the Prior Art to Your Invention
New and excited inventors often...
12Dec
Inventors: 3 Key Reasons Websites Are Still Vital
Inventors - Still Incredibly Important
In these days when your hours are filled with Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social media accounts, is a website even necessary? After all, your primary method of communicating with current and potential customers and clients has changed so much over the years; a website, no matter how dynamic, may just be obsolete. Or so you might be tempted to think. But, no, I believe there is a place for a website independent of all the social media accounts, and will be for a good while to come. Patent attorneys well know how quickly events can...
10Dec
Discover Why a Design Patent Can Be the Right Choice
Choosing the Right Patent
Utility patents, ones that protect how a product functions, and the mechanical aspects of the invention, are usually a patent-seeker's first choice. These patents offer more protections, and a wider variety of ways to use the patent, so patent attorneys usually promote utility patents over design patents. However, design patents do have their place, and if this intellectual property mechanism is particularly suitable for your idea, then make sure to .Utility Patent vs Design Patent
So, what is the difference between the two? It is actually relatively simple to understand. Basically, utility patents protect how something works;...
04Dec
Patent Drawings: 4 Essential Tips for Inventors
Patent Drawings For Key
Unless your invention is similar to a chemical compound or other, non-visual composition, you will need to do patent drawings. These drawings are not only beneficial in documenting your invention, they are a necessity in various stages of your patent application.How Many Do You Need?
At least one patent drawing, or patent illustration, as it is sometimes known, is required to be included with your patent application. Experienced patent attorneys and inventors, however, know that sometimes a single drawing is not nearly enough. In fact, many patent applications include several sheets of patent drawings, each showing a...
25Nov
Copyright Duration: 4 Facts You Must Know Today
Let's Get This Straight - Copyright Duration
The best answer to how long a copyright lasts is usually... “it depends.” This is because more goes into determining how long a particular copyright is held, whether royalties are owed for use, whether a particular thing is in the public domain and more. There are few simple answers to the question, and even when you think you might have the answer, it's a good idea for your patent attorney or other lawyer to look further, if the matter is of importance to you. Still, there are a few guidelines that can help you...
21Nov
