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After filing a patent application, you will often receive patent scams: letters demanding payment.  The same thing happens after you file a trademark registration application.  These letters look [...]

In the U.S., trademark rights are built through use, not by registration.  If you don’t register your mark, you will have common law trademark rights.  So why go through the time and [...]

When planning to register a trademark, you must choose which trademark classes to use for your goods and/or services. If you have questions about what trademark classes you should be considering, [...]

Inventors and entrepreneurs usually ask: what information is needed for a patent application?  The shortest answer is “a bunch!” Call me at 617-340-9295 or email me at my Contact Me [...]

Patent prosecution is the process of applying for a patent with a national patent office, such as the USPTO, assessing their responses, and following up on the application to have one or more [...]

I ordered takeout food recently, and we had a mix-up at the restaurant that made me think of the US patent system, and its recent switch from a “first to invent” to a “first to [...]

You have an idea for a product, an app, or a service, and you want to pursue patent protection.  But should you assign patent rights to your company?  Or if you haven’t started a company, [...]

You can register a trademark on a geographical location.  And there can be good reasons for choosing a place name as part of your trademark: it may suggest a quality associated with that place, [...]

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be moderating a panel at the 6th annual Super Marketing Conference, to be held this June 2 – June 3, 2016, here in Boston. The Super Marketing [...]

You want to file a patent application or provisional patent application to protect your innovation, and you’re looking for a provisional patent application form.  There’s good news [...]