Protecting your Patent under the Doctrine of Equivalents

When a patent is applied for, the inventor must include a specification, which is a written description of the invention,

Patentability of Business Methods

A method of doing business was not traditionally patentable. However, in the latter part of the 20th century, there was

Under the Copyright Act, to perform a copyrighted work means “to recite, render, play, dance, or act it, either directly

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The federal patent statute allows an inventor to obtain a patent for a “new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or

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A trademark is infringed when the mark or a similar mark is used in a way that is likely to

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A trade secret is any sort of business or technological information not generally known that provides a company or other

If an application contains multiple inventions within the application as determined by looking at the claims which are to more