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Design Patents

  • How To File A US Design Patent Based On Foreign Priority
  • How to Challenge a Design Patent Application
  • Can you file a design patent to protect from infringement?
  • How to Get a Better Design Patent
  • Design patent failures: What can go wrong?

IP Strategy

  • How to Enforce Trademarks Without Spending Much Money or Time
  • No Patents: How to Protect Product from Copying
  • Keep it secret or file a patent?
  • Patent and Trademark Attorney: When IP rights overlap
  • Intellectual Property Protection: How to Protect IP

Patent Applications

  • What is subject matter eligibility?
  • How Many Patents By Patent Attorney: How to Search
  • How To File A US Utility Nonprovisional Patent
  • What is patent prosecution?
  • What is a straight continuation application?

Patent Infringement & IP Disputes

  • How to Deal with a Counterfeit Product or Claim
  • Design patent infringement: What is a substantially similar appearance?
  • How to Enforce Intellectual Property Without A Lot of Money
  • How do you argue noninfringement in an Amazon seller patent case?
  • How much does it cost to fight an Amazon seller patent case using the neutral evaluation process?

Patent International

  • PCT Receiving Office (RO): When a PCT application cannot be filed with the USPTO
  • Is there a single patent that covers all countries?
  • PCT Patent Application: Why file foreign when your US application is uncertain, unexamined or not allowed?
  • Do we recommend PCT patent applications?
  • China Utility Model: How is this China utility patent alternative changing?

PCT US National Phase

  • How to Choose a US National Phase Firm: PCT to US National Stage Entry
  • US National Phase Strategy: What is a smarter way to enter the US national stage?
  • How to Order US National Stage Application
  • What PCT strategy would help a US national stage application?
  • How to prepare a PCT application for US national stage entry

Startup IP

  • Incorporate or Trademark First?
  • Patent owned by your company or you as an individual?
  • Quote your own patent cost: How much do you want to pay to file a patent?
  • Why patents matter to your startup
  • IP for product designers: What should designers and consultants know about intellectual property?

Trademark Registration

  • What are Supplemental Register pros and cons?
  • What is my trademark allowance rate?
  • What is a crowded field of third party registrations?
  • How to Request a Trademark Extension For Office Action
  • What is a house mark?

Training and IP Law Practice

  • Your Patent Attorney Retired: How to Transfer Patent Files
  • Should you sell your patent law practice?
  • The Art of Persuasion: How to persuade IP examiners
  • How to save clients money (while making money)
  • Billable hour vs. flat rates

TTAB Trademark Opposition & Cancellation

  • Trademark Counterclaim: A Counterattack for TTAB Oppositions and Cancellations
  • How to Respond to a Notice of Opposition to Your Trademark Application
  • TTAB Trademark Opposition: What You Should Know
  • How to Respond to a Trademark Opposition: Is a registration worth fighting for?
  • How to choose a trademark opposition attorney

USPTO Patent Challenges

  • What is a patent reexamination?
  • How to challenge patents (with lower costs)
  • What is required in a petition for IPR?
  • How much does IPR cost?
  • Is IPR (Inter Partes Review) a Better Way to Defend a Patent Infringement Lawsuit?
Vic Lin, US Patent Attorney
Innovation Capital Law Group
Over 650 US Patents
Over 450 US Trademark Registrations

Email vlin@icaplaw.com
Call (949) 223-9623

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