Design Patent Infringement: What is a substantially similar appearance?
What is the design patent infringement test? It’s simple to recite, but tricky to apply. The test for design patent infringement involves a visual comparison…
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Trademark application: What is the most important factor in registering a mark?
Focus on What Matters Most In Filing Your Trademark Application For many businesses thinking of registering a trademark, cost is the biggest factor. It is…
Patent Rejected: How to Persuade the Examiner to Allow Your Claims
Will your patent be rejected? Almost certainly in a nonprovisional utility patent application, you will face rejections. In a design patent application, perhaps not so…
How to Trademark in Metaverse: Is it possible to register trademarks for virtual goods?
Is it possible to register a trademark in the metaverse? Times are changing. What may have been unimaginable years ago has become a genuine concern…
How to File a Smarter Trademark Response to an Office Action
What are smarter ways to respond to trademark Office Actions? Though you hate to see them, Office Actions are fairly common in USPTO trademark applications.…
How to Expedite Trademark Application: Can you speed up your trademark registration?
Can you expedite a US trademark application? Under limited circumstances, it may be possible to speed up your trademark application. For most applicants, however, expediting…
Smarter Office Action Response: File a CIP Instead?
What is a smarter way to respond to multiple Office Actions in your patent application? 90%. That is the probability that your utility nonprovisional patent…
How to File a Continuation Application: When is the continuation deadline?
When must a continuation application be filed? Known as a child application, a continuation must be filed while the parent application is still pending. A…
How to Enforce Intellectual Property Without A Lot of Money
Affordable ways to enforce intellectual property If you don’t have at least two million dollars laying around to sue for patent infringement, this post is…
How to Review Office Action Response
How to Review a Draft Office Action Response Roughly 90% of utility patent applications will get rejected at least once. When it comes to utility…
How many patent Office Actions can you get? Is there a limit to patent rejections?
How many patent Office Actions are possible? Unfortunately, there are no limits to how many patent Office Actions (OA) an Examiner can issue. Multiple Office…
Patent Cost: Can we match a competitive bid?
Give Us A Chance to Match or Beat a Competitive Patent Cost Quote Nearly every patent firm sets their own attorney’s fees and service rates.…
Intellectual Property Protection: How to Protect IP
What does it mean to protect intellectual property? Now that we know what intellectual property is, let’s talk about how to protect intellectual property. The…
Substitute specimens: How to show trademark use when original specimens rejected
When do you need to submit substitute specimens of use? If your trademark specimens of use have been rejected, then you know what I’m talking…
How can an Amazon seller use design patents?
How can an Amazon seller benefit from design patents? IP simply cannot be ignored when you’re selling on Amazon. A common misconception is that IP…
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