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Employment
I am a software developer and in my private time I develop web interface technology that I believe could be protected as intellectual property. Wit...
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Trademark
I know that generally brand names of different companies should not be similar, but in certain industries such as medical or IT there are many bran...
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Can it have any effect on us if our attorney or her firm is working for a company that could potentially acquire us, or for one of our competitors?...
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Patents
After filing a provisional patent application, can the original application be changed or a new one filed if the underlying concept changes? Does t...
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Business strategy
When in the early phase of a startup venture all efforts of a small team of co-founders go into MVP development, marketing/metrics and fundraising,...
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Patents
Does the new "first-to-file" system mean that if two people working together invent something, one of them can file without the co-inventor such th...
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Patents
A lawyer friend recently mentioned that one is generally more favorable than the other. What exactly is the difference between an RCE an a continua...
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Patents
after the expiration date of a granted patent or a design registration within a single country, the claimed product could become a trademark? if I ...
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Business formation
I have a company that I plan to dissolve. The company owns a simple trademark for the company name. Two members have stated that they want to "reta...
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