How to convert a provisional patent application to a non-provisional patent application?

David: If you are hoping to derive any monetary benefit from patenting your invention, my advice is to hire a competent patent attorney to handle...

Posting private emails with not only confidentiality footer, but explicit instruction in the text not to post.

Perhaps it would appropriate to assert your copyright in the text of your email. Maybe via a DMCA takedown notice. Since you seem to be at the...

Is it illegal for my husband to copyright paintings he did from a comic book?

Although a decision of the federal appellate court sitting in New York City (the Second Circuit) doesn't directly bind the federal courts in...

Can our company risk losing any trademark rights when showing prototypes in public?

Although you ask specifically about trademark rights, may I suggest that you amplify the question to include the full range of intellectual...

I have an idea I would like to patent. Would hiring a patent lawyer be a good idea going forward?

Let's start from scratch. First consider WHY you wish to seek a patent. Is your goal to add another credential to your resume? Or are you going...

If you have a patent attorney send a letter to a person/company and tell them you have a Patent Pending in progress...

Yes. Effective September 16, 2012, Congress amended U.S. patent law to encourage such submissions of prior art in pending patent applications. ...

Can a patent be contingent upon the assembly of multiple parts?

The name of the game is the claim. Whether or not your product would infringe a valid claim of an unexpired patent is a tricky issue for a...

What does a Freedom to Operate, or IP Clearance Analysis guarantee?

I'd supplement the helpful answers by my colleagues on this message thread by adding that there are two very different kinds of "patent searches." ...

I identified a withdrawn patent application, is it now public domain?

In addition to what Daniel and Jeffrey have helpfully said, I'd add that you haven't said whether the "withdrawn" application was officially...

Interesting question. But when you assume that you "own" a "specific" game, you may be failing to acknowledge that you don't very likely have any...