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Are there any prohibitions to using university in my business name.
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Answered on January 26, 2013
In Pennsylvania, the subject is governed by sec.17.8 of the Pennsylvania Code. The answer is YES, the Department of State will not approve an...
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Claims not checked by a patent attorney included into a provisional application
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Answered on January 25, 2013
It is not unusual for a provisional patent application prepared without professional advice to later be found insufficient to support one or more...
Is it illegal to buy clothes from the store, export them out of the country and resell them for profit?
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Answered on January 20, 2013
I was honored to be recommended in the answer to your question by my learned colleague Bruce Burdick.
Bruce correctly identifies the legal...
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What are some common reasons (e.g. making a claim that the product does something within a trademark "slogan"?) for TM denial?
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Answered on January 17, 2013
First, the proposed trademark, as applied to the goods or services recited in the application, must not be similar enough to an already-registered...
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Can I patent a product of mine which is a case packed with a variety products?
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Answered on January 13, 2013
Until the Supreme Court decided the Bilski case in June 2010, an inventive card game was patent-eligible subject matter. I had helped a client...
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My husband has written poems for years, now we have one we are wanting to get trademark on the phase.
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Answered on January 13, 2013
I happen to be a proponent of registering as trademarks certain phrases. For example, our law firm, Elman Technology Law, PC, has registered...
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Can you write a provisional patent application then later file two non provisional patent applications referencing it?
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Answered on January 12, 2013
Yes.
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Trademark help
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Answered on January 12, 2013
Bruce Burdick is top drawer.
If this word "BARBER" is trademarked
And I want to use B.A.R.B.A will the examiner consider the names to close
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Answered on January 12, 2013
"TRADEMARK" is not a verb. I surmise you mean that a business has registered the trademark BARBER (in standard characters rather than stylized...
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Can I sue somebody who infringed on my patent and marketing his product in the States, but living abroad?
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Answered on January 04, 2013
Yes. However your lawyer might have to jump through some hoops to get service of process abroad.
