The short answer is that the best time to talk to a patent attorney is before you need one. There is nothing wrong with talking to a patent...

You need to talk to an attorney that handles trade secret cases. It is possible, that your undisclosed invention remained a trade secret. There...

One possible complication is whether your first application was published. If the application was published several years ago, this is now in the...

I hope that there is not a problem to be addressed. I hope that if you rescinded the engagement before the patent attorney did any work, that you...

The answer that a patent application filed by you cannot infringe another patent is correct as infringement requires making, using, selling, or...

There is no filter on the filing of provisional patent applications. I can file a provisional patent application today to claim that I invented...

The best way to judge whether there are attorneys that are competent to express concepts and negotiate claims in the subset of machine learning of...

I have defended employees in depositions over patents. Not a fun day for the employee. The attorneys can also ask you to search your files for...

As I am not licensed in Florida, my advice is limited to talk to a lawyer with the appropriate skills. To be a bit more helpful, I have set forth...

I will assume that each of the six hair care products has a different idea to be patented and they are not simple variations of one another. Yes,...