Filing for patent - inquiring for a referral to a patent attorney

Further to Dan's response, you should know that patent professionals are licensed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"). There are two...

Invention

In general, there is no such thing as a "free" invention development company. Furthermore, the "invention development" business had developed such...

Different rights flow from different dates. It also depends whether the filing date precedes actual use of the mark in interstate commerce or...

The general principle is that a filing on the intent-to-use filing basis provided for in Trademark Act Section 1(b), 15 U.S.C. 1051(b), will take...

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Patent Attorney Q:How long is an invention patent is good for?

If you're talking about a regular U.S. patent, it's usual term is 20 years from the date the pertinent application was filed. If more than one...

I i searched a trademark on the usto page and it is listed as DEAD does that make it availble to me now?

The USPTO database include several kinds of records. Records marked by the USPTO as LIVE include pending applications and issued trademark...

When you say you are "being sued," do you mean that you have actually been served with a federal court summons, or rather that you have received a...

Beware. Pamela Wilson's answer posted earlier today needs to be read in its entirety. The question of whether one is free to photograph an...

I want to trademark my business name w/ two spellings. Ex: ABCStore and ABC-Store. Can I use one USPTO application for both?

Pamela's right. No, as a formal matter, each U.S. trademark registration can exist in only one version. This is different from a British...

Are web domains covered by Trademark Law?

Pamela's comments are well stated. I would add that one does not register a trademark for a "company name" but rather for particular goods or...