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I’m a successful trademark company and I have a fairly large portfolio of trademarks, 50 to 100 of them. That gets to be a little bit unwielding. The question becomes, how do I make mistakes and I lose my trademarks? Okay, first of all, the most obvious loss of a trademark is I don’t use Read More

When one files a trademark, one files on identification of goods or services, you have a listing. If I am a company and I sell product A and I trademark product A and I now venture out and I want to now sell product B and there’s no real relationship between products A and B. Read More

It is important to establish a confidential relationship with your customer. If your invention is not patentable and customers won’t sign an NDA. Of course, when you start to manufacture your invention, your competition will see it, and can legally copy it until your patent issues. Even if you do not share your invention, but Read More

One of the values of a trademark, it’s called branding. Once your mark becomes popular in the marketplace and people associate that mark with a quality product and a desired product, that makes your branding more valuable. You have a registered trademark with that brand, that is tangible asset that you can franchise, license, of Read More

As an inventor and applicant, you may contact the Patent Office directly. The Patent Office will answer an applicant’s inquiries as to the status of the application and inform you whether your application has been rejected, allowed, or it is awaiting action. However, if you have a patent attorney or agent of record in the Read More

There’s always the fear that somebody’s going to put in a domain name and use your same trademark as a domain name. First of all, yes, if you get a trademark, it is bright, behooves you to go ahead and instantly register for the domain name. It’ll prevent future fights. Even my own firm’s trademark Read More

Should I get my own registration or should I hire an attorney to do a registration? Well, with any legal process, there’s forms to fill out. There’s pitfalls to do, and there’s confusion factor. People go online, they see the form, they attempt to do it. It works by me sometimes. People call me up Read More

The filing of a Patent Cooperation Treaty, or PCT, application is quite expensive, and therefore it is only cost effective if five or more foreign countries are of interest. The choice of countries in which to file, whether under the Patent Paris Convention, or the PCT, depends on the market for the invention. For example, Read More