How do I challenge a trademark registration or application?   Several options exist to challenge another party’s trademark registration or application, depending on the particular...

The Crucial Factors Affecting Inventors on the Path to Patent Success Introduction: Inventions have the power to shape our world, fuel progress, and revolutionize industries....

You company logo helps to identify your goods and service. This is the most important method of distinguishing your brand from other companies. Please give...

GENERAL PATENT QUESTIONS What right does a patent provide? A patent owner has the right to decide who may – or may not – use...

USE THE EXACT TRADEMARK If you are in the early stages of building your brand, do not use different variations of the logo and word(s)....

ARE YOUR PATENT OFFICE MAINTENANCE FEES DUE?   Who can pay? Maintenance fees and any necessary surcharges may be paid by the patentee or by...

How do I challenge a trademark registration or application? Several options exist to challenge another party’s trademark registration or application, depending on the particular circumstances...

RESPONDING TO TRADEMARK OFFICE ACTIONS An office action is an official letter sent by the USPTO. In it, an examining attorney lists any legal problems...

How do I apply for a patent? Inventors may apply for one of two types of patent applications: (1) A nonprovisional application, which begins the...

The United States Patent Laws provide that any person who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or...

Utility patents are provided for a new, nonobvious and useful: Process Machine Article of manufacture Composition of matter Improvement of any of the above Note:...

If your application is abandoned it’s no longer live and can’t mature into a registration. This can happen for many reasons; for example, if you...