As with the USPTO, does the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) allow for provisional patents?

After filing a U.S. provisional patent application, you need to file a PCT patent application within 1 year of the U.S. provisional filing date if...

Unless they companies bough a license from a company that held had the original TM rights, how did they register a TM?

Generally speaking U.S. trademark rights are established and maintained by selling goods in interstate commerce in the U.S. or between the U.S. and...

Can I cite an article from a non profit academic center to advertise my product?

You should have an intellectual property attorney review your proposed advertisement; you do not want to make it appear that the academic hospital...

You need to discuss this matter in a private consultation with an intellectual property attorney, and not in a public forum. It sounds like...

Do my videos actually qualify as "Fair Use", and can I counter the DMCA takedown?

You need to show exactly what you are doing along with the DMCA takedown notice, to an intellectual property attorney in a private consultation. ...

Is it possible to use a trade marked name if the businesses are unrelated?

Assuming no other issues, it may be possible to obtain a U.S. trademark registration for goods/services which are sufficiently unrelated to the...

I need help with 1 product and its patent. We want to make something similar and wanted to know the cost for a lawyer to review.

You can have an attorney analyze your proposed product versus the existing patent to see if there is patent infringement. You should call...

Can I trademark my original name used to sell the products of others?

You need to go over all of the facts with an intellectual property attorney in a private consultation, but as an example "Amazon.com" is arguably a...

If you do a U.S. full trademark search through a reputable trademark search service and have the results analyzed by a trademark attorney, prior to...

As an example, it appears from USPTO statistics that more that 589,000 utility patent applications were filed in 2015, alone. See:...