Patent
What Is a Provisional Patent Application?
A provisional patent application (PPA) is a document issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that protects a
Silvino Diaz July 13, 2021
Patent
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Intellectual Property Law
What is Important to Know About a Publishing Contract (Part 2)
Typically, an author does not receive royalties until the advance has been recouped. The advance is an advance against royalties. Usually, the amount paid to the author will depend on the format of the book being sold as well as on the book retailer selling it.
Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
What is Important to Know About a Publishing Contract (Part 1)
The general trend in the publishing industry today is the growth in sales of ebooks and a decline in the print market. In 2018 it was observed that the bestseller lists have become dominated by mostly political works. Additionally, there is an ever-increasing boost in sales of works adopted for movies and TV series.
Silvino Diaz April 23, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
How to Prevent Cybersquatting
Cybersquatting or domain sharking is the act of registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name that is identical to, or confusingly similar to a registered trademark, with the bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of someone else’s trademark. By doing this, cyber squatters prevent anybody from buying the domain.
Eric Gros-Dubois April 22, 2020
Business Law
How to Patent Internationally
It is worth noting that the granting of the patents still remains in control of the national or regional patent offices. This is due to the fact that there is no universal patent law, and each nation has different legal standards for granting patents as well as enforcing them.
Silvino Diaz March 16, 2020
Business Law
Design and Author’s Rights (Part 2)
The expression of the idea, being the artist’s intention – the artist’s purpose in creating that work. If we assume that the work is called “post post post modernism”; that would be the expression.
Silvino Diaz March 10, 2020
Business Law
How to Protect your “Ideas”
An idea in a vacuum does not have much inherent value. The protection you may have over your “ideas” – that is, concepts and thoughts that have not yet been realized – arises primarily from two sources – intellectual property rights and contractual obligations.
Silvino Diaz February 18, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
8 Things to keep in mind when Inventing (Part 2)
Once the application is submitted, a rigorous evaluation by USPTO officials follows, to certify that what you present as your “claim” in your application is useful, novel and non-obvious. It is also used to check that there is no current patent on it.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
Business Law
8 Things to keep in mind when Inventing (Part 1)
Applying for a patent can be viewed as a contract between inventors and the public (government) in which inventors, in exchange for making their invention public, are granted a limited monopoly over it.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
Trade Dress Infringement
Trade dress infringement occurs when one product’s design or packaging copies that of another product to the degree that there is confusion in the minds of consumers.
Eric Gros-Dubois June 17, 2019
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