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Patents
If an applicant intentionally abandons a patent application, or fails to pay maintenance fees on a granted patent, is there anything else left for ...
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United States
Patents
We would like to sell or market an invention before we file a provisional patent in order to test profitability, market readiness and such. Is this...
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United States
Infringement
Hi! If company A has valuable tech or information protected as a trade secret, could A sue company B if B reverse engineers the technology or publi...
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United States
Copyright
For designs of consumer wearables and other electronics items, what is a good IP strategy? The underlying technology can be protected by patents, b...
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Patents
I have an idea that is not entirely new but when applied to another industry, it has not been done before. Can it still be patented? And it seems p...
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Hong Kong
Patents
We are developing a mobile app with the intention of launching it in our country while to host the server in India. We are worried about the patent...
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Nigeria
Patents
If we manage to obtain a patent for our technology, could someone else apply for a patent if they developed an improved product based on our tech? ...
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United States
Patents
If an invention is not on the market yet, doesn't that also mean that investing in a patent search for that technology is more or less unnecessary?
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