Avvo plugged this into Employment and Labor, but it is also an issue that intellectual property lawyers deal with regularly. Each case is judged...

My colleagues have patented the idea of one of our published journals papers without letting me know. What should I do

You can't patent an idea and a patent application will not be examined, nor will a patent issue, in three months. You may be talking about...

Should i have to pay double fee's ?

Patent attorneys and agents are trained to follow all the rules. Just because EFS Web didn't give you error messages for what you did file doesn't...

It would be an accurate statement that if the "look" of the sunglasses is sufficiently distinctive that consumers identify it with a particular...

As pointed out above, repackaging and reselling is likely permitted under trademark law as long as it is not misleading. Sometimes and accurate...

In addition to the excellent analysis above, whether you have a registration, when it issued relative to the alleged infringement and where the...

Am I infringing on someone's trademark?

If your question is whether the absence of the article "The" and making a word plural would be enough to negate the similarity of marks factor in a...

Your analysis appears sound and your recognition that there is uncertainty is right on point. Generally, nominative fair use requires that there be...

If it's original it could be copyrighted. 50 years ago copyright notice was required but it's not anymore.

Logo copyright law?

Save all the documentation that explains what you hired the designer to do and what you paid for. If the logo has "art" it might be...