Have you invented something useful or do you have a product idea that competitors may want to steal?  How can a patent lawyer help you with Federal Patent Protection?

Hiring an intellectual property attorney can help you get a federal patent grant, that’ll allow you to have a legal monopoly over a product or method lasting for approximately 20 years. It is not a right to make or use an invention but rather a right to exclude others from making or using (in addition to other infringing conduct).  In this country, an original inventor is the “first to invent” rather than the “first to file.”  Therefore, you can protect yourself from a later inventor gaining patent rights by signing and dating your invention description and preferably having an uninterested witness sign as well.

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Protecting your Brand, Boosting its Value, Including Guidelines for Sound Brand Management.

What is a Trademark?

A trademark is a word or design that identifies and distinguishes products or services in the marketplace.  Sounds and combinations of words, symbols, letters and numbers, in addition to smells and shapes of packaging can also be distinctive marks.  In short, a trademark is a brand.  For example, if you were raising cattle you would want to design a brand from iron and use it to place an indelible mark on each or your cattle.  Further, you would want to promote and advertise your brand and boost its reputation every way you knew how to increase the value of your cattle.

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