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    Infringement Intellectual property protection for jewelry designs?
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  • Does a US Patent help us with filing for patents in other countries?
    Patents If I file for patent protection in the United States, does this make it easier to gain patent protection in other countries? Due to financial const...
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  • Costs of trademark protection
    Trademark Hi! How much does it cost to gain Trademark protection within the UK? Is it generally a better idea to get a EU-wide Trademark and would this be ...
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  • Protecting our users ideas within our application.
    Contracts Hi everyone, In our web application users can add their ideas to a database that we make available for potential, manually verified investors to...
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  • Single or Multi-member LLC
    Business formation I am buying a rental property, should I put it in a single or multi-member llc?
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  • usage of copyrighted music at startup convention?
    Copyright Hi everybody, I just noticed a company, Evolable Asia, is using Pharrel's song "happy" at TechCrunch Tokyo to attract customers. Can they just d...
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  • What happens after a provisional patent expires?
    Patents Hello! If a provisional patent is not converted into a non-provisional patent after a year, can this still be done at a later date with some legal ...
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  • Patenting an invention in the U.S. that may be patented elsewhere
    Patents Is it possible to patent an invention in the United States, if someone else has patented a similar invention already in another country, but does n...
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  • Do we have to disclose the data our product collects from the customer?
    Contracts We are working on products in the emerging market of wearables. Many of our testers and potential early adopters have raised the issue of privacy c...
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  • National trademark & OHIM registration procedure
    Trademark If I have a trademark registered in Germany (or other EU jurisdiction), does this assist my OHIM trademark application in any way? For example, is ...
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