Decades Of Experience In Science, Business And Intellectual Property Law
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...
When an organization submits paperwork to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for trademark recognition, it often initiates the process because it has already used a specific image or logo as a trademark. The company has started to advertise or...