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Fatal mistakes are often made when people unfamiliar with patent and trademark law leave that kind of intellectual property to people in their will or
The patent clock keeps ticking after you die! A utility patent is a time-sensitive asset. If you own the patent rights to your invention, you
Not having provisions about control of your business’ intellectual property in your business operating documents is a grave mistake in intellectual property protection.
When
This copyright jump scare is the termination provision in the 1976 Copyright Act that allows creators who transferred their copyright rights to someone else to
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The most powerful strategy for protecting the design of a physical product is the dual protection of a design patent and trade dress.
Both design patents and trade dress have one unfortunate thing in common: functionality of the design can be a killer.
You cannot protect a
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Here’s a Petrifying Patent Fact: For protecting a product, most people only think of utility patents, which protect how something works. But there’s also a
How do you protect how your product looks? Today we’re tackling the Two-Headed Monster of Design IP: design patents and trade dress trademarks. This is
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Genericide is the legal process
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