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  • design patent for 4-yr-old design
    特許 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...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1800 いいね: 0 アメリカ合衆国
  • Registration of a European Trademark
    商標 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 ...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1653 いいね: 8 オランダ
  • What is the quickest way to get a trademark?
    商標 We would like to protect our company & product name (identical). Some investors whom we approached early on mentioned that good TM protection could...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 2004 いいね: 6 イギリス
  • How can we workaround a competitor's patent
    特許 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...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1370 いいね: 3 アメリカ合衆国
  • What is the most inexpensive way to protect the design of my product?
    特許 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...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1334 いいね: 4 アメリカ合衆国
  • Can Industrial Designs be protected in Brazil?
    特許 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?
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1159 いいね: 2 ブラジル
  • How does trademark law protect a logo?
    商標 How far does the protection reach and what would be protected besides the logo itself, such as a the company name or slogan text?
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1605 いいね: 11 アメリカ合衆国
  • Geographic Indications?
    侵害 Hi! I have heard that many agricultural and food products in Europe, like Champaign from France or Blackforest Ham are protected under something ca...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1072 いいね: 2 アメリカ合衆国
  • European Trademarks
    商標 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...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1219 いいね: 3
  • Is it trademark infringement if startups use well known brands in their slogans or high concept pitches?
    商標 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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