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A Design Patent protects the unique design of your product. If you have a Design Patent, you have the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing your design for a period of 14 years.
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USPTO Extends Combined Patent Search Pilot Program with Japanese Patent Office
The United States Patent Office has announced an expansion of the Collaborative Search Pilot Program beginning November 1, 2022. This…
Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research
Under typical Phase 1 contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), such as the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), default…
Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure to Funding Agencies and Agency March-in Rights
Funding agencies have taken a very narrow approach when interpreting the four categories listed above from 35 U.S.C. §…
Chinese Utility Models, Strengthening and Supplementing Intellectual Property Protection in China
Chinese Utility models can provide an alternative to invention patents and supplement them too.
Duty of Disclosure Before USPTO Highlighted in Federal Register
The notice provides ample guidance for all parties under the duty to disclose, including whom the duty of disclosure applies…
Chinese Patent Litigation: Leveraging Specialized IP Courts
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Are Templates and Forms Protected Under Copyright Law?
Let’s say I was the first to invent the Venn diagram. Can I obtain a copyright or a patent to…
If You’re Making Your Own Board Game, How Do You Protect Your Idea?
Making your own board game? Learn how to protect your board game idea with patents, trademarks, and copyright, from Founders…
How to Protect Your Brand – Trademarks 101
It is common for entrepreneurs to spend years of their lives, in addition to their blood, sweat and tears to…
What Happens If I Infringe on Someone’s Copyright?
As an attorney for startups and up-and-coming companies, I am often asked questions such as these: “do I need permission…
What Is a Copyright?
If a person today creates an intellectual, creative or artistic work, the form of that work is automatically protected by…
What Is a Trademark, Service Mark, and Patent?
A trademark is what you use as a source identifier of the product or goods you offer to the public…
Copyright Resources
If You’re Making Your Own Board Game, How Do You Protect Your Idea?
Making your own board game? Learn how to protect your board game idea with patents, trademarks, and copyright, from Founders…
What Happens If I Infringe on Someone’s Copyright?
As an attorney for startups and up-and-coming companies, I am often asked questions such as these: “do I need permission…
What Is a Copyright?
If a person today creates an intellectual, creative or artistic work, the form of that work is automatically protected by…
If You Develop an App with Someone Else, Who Owns the Patent & Copyright Rights?
Building an app with someone else? Learn who owns the patent and copyright rights and how to protect your ownership,…
Website Terms and Conditions, Why Do I Need Them?
Three Ways The Most Boring Page on Your Website Offers Critical Protection Although web professionals spend almost no time on…
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What is a freedom to operate search and opinion?
Freedom to Operate Search (FTO) What is a freedom to operate search and opinion? A freedom to operate (FTO) study…
China Embraces Two WIPO Treaties, Expanding its Presence in the Global IP Ecosystem
China Embraces Two WIPO Treaties, Expanding its Presence in the Global IP Ecosystem China has joined two treaties recently: the…
Patent Rights: Assignors Transferring Rights and Infringing on Assigned Patents
Patent Rights: Assignors Transferring Rights and Infringing on Assigned Patents In June 2021’s Minerva Surgical Inc. v Hologic case, the…
Founders Legal® & PQAI℠ – improving access to patent search
Founders Legal®, a boutique Corporate & Intellectual Property law firm, has teamed up with the PQAI℠ initiative to launch a…
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Invent?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology scales globally, driving innovation and adding trillions of dollars to the world economy.
In recent years, developers…
What is the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA)?
Many software and product companies, whether through licensing or commercialization of intellectual property products and services, are being built predominantly…
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Patent Rights: Assignors Transferring Rights and Infringing on Assigned Patents
Patent Rights: Assignors Transferring Rights and Infringing on Assigned Patents In June 2021’s Minerva Surgical Inc. v Hologic case, the…
Founders Legal® & PQAI℠ – improving access to patent search
Founders Legal®, a boutique Corporate & Intellectual Property law firm, has teamed up with the PQAI℠ initiative to launch a…
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Invent?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology scales globally, driving innovation and adding trillions of dollars to the world economy.
In recent years, developers…
What is the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA)?
Many software and product companies, whether through licensing or commercialization of intellectual property products and services, are being built predominantly…