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Kevan LeRoy Morgan
Seattle Patent Application Attorney.
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  1. Dylan O Adams
  2. Kevan LeRoy Morgan
  3. Daniel Nathan Ballard
  4. Nancy Baum Delain

Federal and WA state patent law

Asked by a user in Everett, WA - almost 4 years ago.

The answers above by Mr. Adams and Mr. Ballard are well thought out and spot on. An inventor can do much on his own using available Web resources prior to contacting a patent attorney. Google Patent Search was noted as an effective tool. http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office also permits searching of its collection of patents dating back to 1976 (full text) and to 1790 (patent images). Published US patent applications are also searchable. http:/...

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Can I copyright a company catalog dated 1939

Asked by a user in Olympia, WA - almost 4 years ago.

You can claim a copyright in a work only if you are the owner of the copyright. Here, it appears the catalog was produced at the direction of the company Lenox Incorporated. Thus, to the extent that a copyright on the catalog exists, the copyright is probably owned by Lenox. Distribution of the catalog is another question. You ask whether you can legally distribute the catalog information to collectors. From this, I take it that you wish to duplicate catalog pages and provide them to...

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