Patent attorneys here will be quick to point out the technicality that you cannot patent an "idea" - you can only patent an "invention". That's...

Piling on my colleagues' answers, you can do anything you want with a work that is truly in the public domain. The difficult part is that you will...

This is a case of "fan fiction". Law regarding fan fiction turns on the application of the Fair Use Doctrine to the facts of the case. Is...

An accused device infringes a patent if, and only if, the accused device practices each and every element (or its equivalent) in at least one claim...

An inventor's declaration, submitted with the application, must "Include a statement that the person executing the oath or declaration believes the...

Echoing my colleagues' comments, you should hire a U.S. patent attorney. National stage prosecution in the U.S. is generally complex and requires...

To answer this question, you need to go to fundamentals. A copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights, among them the right to make copies and to...

My suggestions: 1. If you have not already done so, register your work with the U.S. Copyright Office. Registration is pre-requisite for filing...

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Recipies are difficult to patent. When a recipe is a combination of known ingredients, and the combination is made by a known method (e.g. simply...

Non-lawyers often think parody fair use is broad when actually it is rather narrow. You have a parody fair use defense only if the use actually...