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Patent Attorneys: The Fundamental Services

So What Does A Patent Attorney Do? This blog will necessarily be very general, as there is no one definition of a patent attorney, and no one determinator of...


Post Date: August 26, 2013

Preparing Your Idea For Intellectual Property Protection

An Idea is a Beautiful Thing - Make it Count It's not that difficult for some to come up with wonderful, innovative ideas—but getting those ideas to the point...


Post Date: August 23, 2013

Inventors: Avoid These Common Mistakes

Even though it can sometimes seem that the answer to everything is online—sometimes those answers are not correct. As any number of would-be inventors have found out, sometimes...


Post Date: August 19, 2013

Friday Q & A : Answering Your Patent Search Questions

First thing's First Sometimes would-be inventors get lost, or discouraged, before they even apply for their patent. This is because they are unclear on some of the process that...


Post Date: August 16, 2013

Apple Gives Us Yet Another Brilliant Patent

Apple Wants Power-Saving to be Just a Look Away Consumer expectation for electronic devices is that they will become ever more useful and multipurpose, allowing them to do more...


Post Date: August 12, 2013

Trade Theft

Obama Administration's 5-Step Strategy for Combating Trade Secret Theft The timing of recent cyber attacks, and the suspicions of their Chinese origin, added yet more interest to the administrations...


Post Date: May 11, 2013

Trademark

Trademarks — Different From Copyright and Patents There is sometimes some confusion surrounding the various intellectual property law terms. People are generally familiar with the words, but are sometimes...


Post Date: May 7, 2013

Patent Idea

No, You Can’t Patent An Idea, But… You may have had the most brilliant thought or breakthrough but, no matter what hucksters try to tell you—you cannot patent that...


Post Date: May 4, 2013

IP Social Media

Establishing Yourself on Social Media There is a place for lawyers and intellectual property experts on social media, which is why establishing a presence is so important. Not only...


Post Date: April 29, 2013

General Copyright

Copyright, in General The copyright process is one that sometimes confuses people, for all that it’s so simple. This is partly due to it being confused with other things,...


Post Date: April 26, 2013