by Lea Strickland | Oct 4, 2016 | Focus on Business Radio Show
Intellectual Property – Patents Protect Your Inventions Lyle Gravatt of NK Patent Law, PLLC. shares insights and experience with US Patent Laws. What patents are, do, and how they protect your inventions and business. About Lyle Gravatt W. Lyle Gravatt is an...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2010 | Glossary
In United States patent law, utility is a patentability requirement. Today, the utility requirement is the lowest bar and is easily met. Largely utility is used to prevent the patenting of inoperative devices such as perpetual motion machines.
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2010 | Glossary
Distinctive design, graphics, logo, symbols, words, or any combination thereof that uniquely identifies a firm and/or its goods or services, guarantees the item’s genuineness, and gives it owner the legal rights to prevent the trademark’s unauthorized use....
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2010 | Glossary
Type of intellectual property such as formulary, know how, process, system, or confidential information that gives its owner a competitive advantage and unauthorized disclosure of which will harm the owner. Courts generally grant injunctions to prevent a threatened...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2010 | Glossary
Limited legal monopoly granted to an individual or firm to make, use, and sell its invention, and to exclude others from doing so. An invention is patentable if it is novel, useful, and non-obvious. To receive a patent, a patent application must disclose all details...