"EyEUbiquitous.com" request compensation for image use in a nonprofit newsletter issued for education purposes. Do we pay them?

You may be getting a bit ahead of yourself. First and foremost, only the owner of the copyright rights can assert infringement. Thus, you can...

This type of request is not unusual where there is an employment agreement in place at the time the invention was made. It usually states...

A patent attorney has an ethical obligation under the rules of conduct to not file an application for a patent that they know is not patentable. ...

Could I patent something thats already patented but I will switch from metal to plastic with another purpose?

Two of the requirements for a patent are "novelty" - is the invention new - and "non-obviousness" - is the invention an insubstantial variant of...

One or two patent - if I'm improving the regular desktop mouse, but additionally also how the wireless works with 80% same idea

The number of patents will depend upon the claims. You could write a single application that supports many patents. For example, if you were the...

Why isn't copyright, as it exists today, unconstitutional?

The power is expressly given to Congress. As such, it is the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "limited time." Thus, the actions of Congress...

Clarification, please, on the 'first to file' basis of the USPTO.

Your question combines two different (but related) issues. First to file merely relates to two separate filers. Whoever filed first gets the...

It's 2014 here in the technology capital of America; yet there's no app to make the attorney search simple for clients. Why?

If you posted a question here and saw the tabs at the top of the page like: research legal issues, find a layer, ask a question, you partially have...

How long can a school take your hat

First, what does this have to do with intellectual property? Second, instead of asking a legal forum (implying that you might take legal action...

I have an nonprovisional and divisional application - revised version of a allowed application, underway for becoming patent

A patent attorney would need to review the application and its parent to make sure that the divisional is proper, and prepare or, if you have...