What is the effect of an international patent application?

The PCT is an international treaty with more than 145 Contracting States. The PCT makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in a large number of countries by filing a single “international” patent application instead of filing several separate national or regional patent applications. The granting of patents remains under the control of the national or regional patent Offices in what is called the...

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What are the pros and cons of intellectual property?

Intellectual Property Rights Pros and Cons Your company’s name, logo and even your products belong, well, to your company. In a perfect world, that’s how things would remain. These are all forms of intellectual property – you own the rights to that property (intellectual property rights). However, this is far from a perfect world. A quick look at the number of lawsuits revolving around IPR should highlight just how easily one company can infringe...

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How important is intellectual property protection for a startup?

If you could obtain a patent, that would be a great place to start and you should definitely pursue that. A patent would basically grant you a monopoly on the technology and let you exclude others from using it, or at least they would have to pay you for such use. But, assuming there is no patentable technology like you said, any other intellectual property right  (IP) may or may not be worth it. It really would depend on your...

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How do I protect intellectual property for my software?

How do I protect intellectual property for my software? To protect yourself you can apply for a software patent, but it’s an expensive, time-consuming process with no guarantee. The alternative is to find a work around, you could consider the following steps: Protect Intellectual Properties Rights in Vietnam 1. Keep It Close Be very careful about any outsourcing partner you work with, either domestically or overseas. Make sure...

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Which firm is better and cheaper for trademark registration?

As other answers have indicated, you may be incredibly tempted to avoid some costs by completing a trademark registration on your own. The problem that many people face at the very start is that researching existing trademarks is not only an incredibly tedious process, but it’s also easy to make a simple oversight that could lead to inability to complete the trademark. In the end, you can waste a considerable amount of time and money.  Trademark...

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Can an inventor and a company share patent rights?

Patent rights can certainly be shared between a company and an inventor. In fact, patent rights can be shared by any combination of people and/or entities you can imagine. I’ve attempted to answer. Who initially owns patent rights? Under United States patent law, the inventor (or inventors) of a patent own the patent rights unless and until they assign the patent to another person or entity. This means that in the absence of a transfer of...

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I have an idea that has to do with “social networking”. Do I patent or copyright it?

“What’s the deal with copyrights?” and “What’s the deal with patents?” Copyrights protect works of authorship, but not abstract ideas. A work of authorship is something specific… it’s words on a page (including lines of code on a hard drive), it’s paint on a canvas (or colored pixels on a screen), it’s musical notes on an iPod. The Harry Potter books begin with these lines: “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were...

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How can I do a reaction video without getting a copyright strike?

How can I do a reaction video without getting a copyright strike? Why do some people skip and cut the video while others don’t? Your first problem is that the way most reaction videos are made, they are absolutely an illegal copyright infringement. This whole things about skipping and cutting is an attempt to avoid being detected by YouTube’s upload scanner, Content ID. You are asking us how to circumvent detection, not how to do this...

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Can I file a patent for a software that includes functionality from existing patents?

Yes. The fact that someone has patented a concept that you are building upon does not stop you from getting a patent on an improvement on that concept. that is kind of the point of the patent system encourage people to disclose their invention (in exchange for possible patent protection), so that others will improve in the inventions that were disclosed. However, having a patent on an improvement on someone else’s invention does not protect...

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