Answering Your Patent Search Questions
Patent Searches - The First Step It is no great secret that many inventors become overwhelmed and discouraged before they even begin the process of applying for a patent...
Patent Application Tips – Describing Your Invention
Patents - They Really Are This Complex Could you, if asked (and you will be asked if you file a patent application,) describe the “alternative embodiments” of your invention?...
A Few Trademark Basics and Benefits For Your Consideration
Trademarks: They Count Most people know the importance of tradmarks to huge, mega-corporations who have many products and enormous profits to protect. Fewer are convinced that it's worth it...
An Important Business Decision: The Right Trademark
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...
Should You Be Your Own 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...
Preparing Your Own Patent Application? Beware These Background Pitfalls
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...
Inventors: What You Need To Know About Websites
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...
The Sometimes-Neglected Design Patent
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...
Invention Talk: Patent Drawings
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...
A Copyright Lasts How Long?
Let's Get This Straight 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...
