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  • design patent for 4-yr-old design
    Patents We would like to market a device the design of which we developed about four years ago. At the time, we sold one device in a 'private' sale and gav...
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  • Registration of a European Trademark
    Trademark My company's name is registered as a Trademark in the US and I would like to register it in Europe as well. After some searching it turns out that ...
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  • What is the quickest way to get a trademark?
    Trademark We would like to protect our company & product name (identical). Some investors whom we approached early on mentioned that good TM protection could...
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  • How can we workaround a competitor's patent
    Patents I want to start a company, and one of the requirements of our product is that it fuses data together from various sources. Another company has a br...
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  • What is the most inexpensive way to protect the design of my product?
    Patents I should explain that the product itself is not an original creation, just the design/style as well as the style name (think Nissan ROGUE). The gen...
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  • Can Industrial Designs be protected in Brazil?
    Patents Does Brazil offer protection similar to US design patents? If so, what is the procedure to obtain a registered right and what are the overall costs?
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  • How does trademark law protect a logo?
    Trademark How far does the protection reach and what would be protected besides the logo itself, such as a the company name or slogan text?
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  • Geographic Indications?
    Infringement Hi! I have heard that many agricultural and food products in Europe, like Champaign from France or Blackforest Ham are protected under something ca...
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  • European Trademarks
    Trademark If I have a trademark registered in the US, does that have any effect in Europe? If not, and I register for a "community trademark", does that give...
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  • Is it trademark infringement if startups use well known brands in their slogans or high concept pitches?
    Trademark We have got some advice that it is useful to use popular brands to illustrate your business model. For that I have even found a couple of example...
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