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Intellectual Property

An intellectual property ("IP") lawyer can evaluate cases involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, franchising, technology rights, data rights, internet law and invention development.

What is a Patent?

A patent is an official document issued ("granted") by the federal government to the recipient ("patentee"), granting "...the right to EXCLUDE others from making, using, or selling the invention throughout the United States." (35 U. S. C. 154) An intellectual property lawyer can help with these issues.

A patent has 3 basic parts:
  • A grant
  • A description ("specification") telling how to make the invention, and
  • CLAIMS (defining, in words, what is protected).
A Patent Specification generally includes four main components:
  1. Background (describing the technical field of the invention and the problems that existed before the invention,
  2. Drawings (usually required) showing the invention; and
  3. Detailed Description(enables readers to make and use invention and shows best mode known to inventor at time of filing - i.e. satisfies statutory duties under 35 U.S.C.112)
  4. Claims, which define, in words, the limits of coverage claimed by the inventor.
What is a Patent?
Other Features of Patents
How to evaluate an Invention
What a Patent is NOT
What is Patentable?
When may One apply for a Patent?
How to Obtain a Patent:
STEP 1: Prepare a Disclosure of the Invention
STEP 2. Conduct a Patentability Search
STEP 3: Draft and File the Patent Application
STEP 4: Prosecution of the Patent Application
STEP 5: Pre-Grant Publication of the Patent Application
STEP 6: Issuance of the Patent
Exploitation of Patents
Enforcement of Patents

Infringement

music copyrightPatents deal with inventions.

Trademarks and service marks deal with "marks" used in "trade", that is brand names.

Copyrights deal with works of art. Intellectual property, especially copyright for writers, is seemingly a simple concept: when you create something, you own it.

Copyrights, like trademarks, arise automatically.

Patents, however, must be applied for.

An intellectual property lawyer can help with all of these things.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EMERGING ISSUES

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SAIC alleging negligence resulting in identity theft.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SUITS FILED

eBay allegedly failing to protect artists from copycats.

Getty Images Faces Class Action over Premium Access

Madison, CT allegedly violated state constitution by excessively increasing permit fees.


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SETTLEMENTS

Visual Sciences Inc. $9 million settlement in patent infringement lawsuit.

VA Data Theft Class Action $20 Million Settlement Proposed

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