When people come into us, we give them a little bit of, kind of patents 101, and we tell them what it’s all about. And even with companies, even sometimes larger companies, we will actually do a presentation, and we want these people to understand what patents are all about. Engineers, for example, often are Read More

If I go with what is called the Madrid Protocol, I present my U.S. trademark, present it to Madrid, they go ahead, they make an international registration. Now the international registration, it means they review the form, make sure it qualifies as far as physically what’s in the application, that all the components are there. Read More

Client comes in, he has his U.S. trademark he’s received or at least he’s filed for it, and now he wishes to file that trademark internationally. He asks me, what is the best way for me to get protection in the following eight foreign countries? I say, you have two options. You can take your Read More

With regard to confidentiality, one must understand that there’s no right to stop someone from copying your invention until your patent actually issues. Even after you file your patent application, even after the application is published by the patent office, you still cannot enforce it. And we give this advice to people. We can’t tell Read More

People come into our office and they present an invention and they say, this has never been done before. And then of course, we have to evaluate who they are and how well they know the industry and the products. So generally they’ve gone to the store, they’ve gone to Home Depot, they’ve looked on Read More

What’s the extent of coverage of a U.S. patent? As with anything patents are territorial, a patent will cover, or I should say a U.S. patent will cover the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico. People ask me, is there such a thing as an international? Now, I stress the word patent because Read More

There are companies that are built on patents, especially small companies, that are trying to develop in the field. For example, based on a particular product or, a product line, and patents are extremely important for them because patents are value, it’s, an intellectual property is property. Just as though the company owned a car Read More

If I provide you all the background information of what your competitors are doing, you can compare that to what you’re doing and you can actually improve your particular product based on what you see the ideas other people are doing and you can compare it to what you have. So not only do you Read More

A new inventor comes on into my office and said, “here’s my idea, what’s the first thing I should do?” And I tell the inventor, “of course, you write it up, you give me your drawings. But the first thing you want to do is you want to have a patent search done.” Unfortunately, patent Read More

Yeah, it’s a draftsman, but it’s a patent draftsman, because the requirements are quite different, especially with regard to designs. If you have a product, this table for example, you would need to show a view of it from every angle. The top, the bottom, the sides, and a perspective, so that somebody can see Read More