Avvo is a forum for answering legal questions of general scope. This question of yours is quite specific to your particular facts. You need to...

If the applicant will agree that you were omitted as an inventor in error, then correction should be easy even if there is a non-final rejection...

Can he work on someone else Idea without her permission?

I changed the category of this question from "Patent Application" to "Ethics & Professional Responsibility". Your question, as best understood,...

Is patent pending different then a patent? How? What does it mean that you can patent an idea and not a process?

Strictly speaking, you cannot patent an "idea". You can patent an INVENTION, if it is new, useful and non-obvious. An invention is either an...

I echo my colleague's advice. Retain counsel to represent your interests before the court. The old adage is true: a person who acts as his own...

I would like to Trademark or patent two phrases that I made up for my company

I advise any person making a business decision based on an answer to a legal question to hire legal counsel for advice specific to their facts upon...

It is true that patents have limited lifetimes. In the US, it is 20 years from the "priority date", which is commonly the filing date of the...

Others here will address the legal concerns relating to copyright and trademark infringement. I want to address your concern about...

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It is indeed prudent to determine freedom to practice your technology. In many cases, the effort in searching for blocking patents is justified,...

How do I speak with a parent lawyer?

I echo my colleague's comments. Another point to bear in mind is that, while the practice of general law is limited to the jurisdiction in which...