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If the products you will be selling will compete with your employer's products, then the answer is most likely yes. The reason for this, however,...

I make an item that health fitness centers are using I'm selling them over a year, patent was denied how can I protect it.

From a patent perspective, you probably have no options for protecting your product. If you have been selling your current design for more than a...

We hired an attorney to help us with a patent. It is coming near our deadline with our provisional to file for a utility.

Billing in this way is quite common. However, I agree with the other answers that it isn't worth billing for the email since it probably takes the...

Yes, you can claim priority to any provisional that was filed within one year of the filing date of the non-provisional application. The question...

How does a small/tiny biz FIND & ASCERTAIN a "REASONABLE" IP attorney/firm for USPTO+Contracts+Licensing of Computing Products?

My rate is much lower than $500 and I imagine I (and other less expensive attorneys) have done considerably more software patent work recently than...

Under the AIA how do you conduct market research without being accused of "selling" and loosing your patent rights.

Make the potential licensee sign a non-disclosure agreement. You would still need to be careful about how far your negotiations go to make sure...

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