Decades Of Experience In Science, Business And Intellectual Property Law
Trade secrets can include anything from client lists to financial data, and it's essential to protect them from unauthorized use or disclosure. They could be the very lifeblood of your company's success. A business must take reasonable steps to safeguard its trade...
When an inventor or innovative business creates a novel, reproducible product, product design, manufacturing process or even a certain kind of plant species, they can apply for intellectual property protection through the United States Patent and Trademark Office...
Trademarks are incredibly important. They help to protect your company’s brand and its intellectual property. Formal registration of the marks that you are either using or hope to use is not an undertaking that you want to overlook as a company owner. All too often,...
You’re an up-and-coming business owner in the middle of planning your business idea. So far, you’ve figured out your niche, set-up and target demographic. Next, you should consider getting a trademark for your company. A trademark is a symbol that differentiates...
The patent application process is notoriously complex. It often takes individual inventors or inventive companies over a year to fully complete a patent application before it is ready for submission to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the government agency that processes all federal requests for formal trademark registration. The USPTO is given broad discretion to manage its authority per a federal law called the Lanham Act. Therefore, although it was...
Trademarks serve as potentially powerful elements of a company’s broader intellectual property protection strategy. Unlike reproducible inventions, which are generally only enforceable once the government has issued an explicit patent for the work in question,...
It was announced in early February that social media giant Meta and Dfinity Foundation, which is a blockchain nonprofit, have resolved a dispute concerning Meta’s infinity-symbol logo. While this doesn’t seem like groundbreaking news on its face, there are important...