Agreeing with my colleagues here, to put it succinctly: a new, non-obvious use of a known apparatus or article of manufacture can be patentable. ...

You have assumed that the rights of copyright are non-transferrable. That is incorrect. The rights of copyright are transferrable. Transfer may...

Piling on my colleagues' answers, a "specimen" shows use in commerce. If you haven't started offering the goods/services for sale in commerce,...

Consult with an IP attorney. Check out this document: See...

To get a satisfactory answer to this fact-specific question, I recommend you bring your Google employee IP agreement and the hackathon paperwork to...

These questions are very specific to your facts. For an answer on which you can rely, hire an intellectual property attorney in your jurisdiction...

I also am confused. You said your provisional patent application was rejected. Provisional patent applications are never examined. The only...

A patent is the exclusive right granted by a government to the inventor to make, use, sell and import the inventor’s patented invention. A...

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Save ALL your documentation. The fact that your cards were authenticated before they were lost is important. Keep the authentication report safe....