What constitutes disclosure in terms of invention detail?

If you are worried about creating your own prior art that could be used against you in the prosecution of a filed patent application, then in order...

A person has stolen content from my website and is using it in a craigslist ad. What can I do about it?

The first question is whether your "content" was protected or protectable. The content you are referring to might be protected by Copyright law. ...

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

First, you cannot extend a provisional, it will expire at the end of one year - automatically by operation of law. You can always file another,...

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What is the best way to express many alternatives in the claims of a mechanical invention?

Let your USPTO registered patent attorney take care of the claims. That is his/her job. Then when you review the claims, ask questions and make...

How can i Patent the format of my youtube channel ?

For a utility patent, your invention must be useful (think utilitarian use), novel, and non-obvious. It is unclear whether this "format" would...

Is this Cyber Piracy?

In addition, if this domain name is your federally registered trademark, then you may be able to force transfer to the domain name to the entity...

How can two separate entities simultaneously hold a trademark in the same international class for the same word or phrase?

I agree with my colleagues. Generally within a given international class (IC) there is still a ton of diversity of the goods/services which may...

Public disclosure of invention idea; PRE-provisional patent issuance. To what extent can (should) I disclose?

You have a very common problem, with an intersection between legal needs/constraints and your business needs. From a legal perspective,...

I came up with a name , i got it trade mark but,put it in my best friend (20yrs) name, how can i get it back from her? or can i?

Fyi ... the "daddigyrl" trademark is not federally registered, the mark was abandoned and I am not sure the mark could be federally registered if...

Husband admitted to non VA hospital per call to the VA and now they are denying the claim. Appealed, still denied. Any advise?

Hire a litigator, permits one that might take this on contingency basis. But generally you want to exhaust your administrative proceedings within...