How does a provisional application offer protection(filing date) if invention is still being development?

Terminology is important. The terms "idea", "invention", and "patentable invention" are often misused interchangeably. "Idea" includes both...

How can I protect intellectual property, when presenting an idea to a group or a company?

What you must perform. 1. See a registered patent attorney for a free consultation. You will describe your invention to the patent attorney and...

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Is it illegal for a previous owner to continue to sell the products which I purchased?

Recipes are seldom subject to intellectual property rights, although the written expression of them might be if creatively expressed. If the prior...

Invention Home

You probably should NOT be working with Invention Home. They are an invention promotion firm. Ask them for their "AIPA Affirmative Disclosure...

Will a non-compete signed after the deadline date be enforceable?

Chances are quite good that this agreement is, in fact, null and void. Most non-compete clauses are strictly construed against the party that wrote...

What you do is consult an entertainment lawyer and specifically a music industry lawyer right away and have him or her review your label contract...

A company says they have "trademarked designs", yet I see the items for sale from Chinese wholesalers. Can I sell them?

But me see if I understand. You want to sell counterfeit items and you think that because other people sell counterfeit items it is okay for you to...

You register at www.copyright.gov using eCO in the center column and following the instructions. Then you will do agreements called "splits" or...

Various people have various views of Invention Home (aka Jacobs Enterprises). In my view they offer mostly worthless invention promotion services...

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Just use a combination name and then have two divisions. Then you can easily and truthfully say "Proudly serving Maple Valley since 2005" For...