by Team EvansIPLaw | Sep 5, 2023 | Welcome to All About Inventing!
USPTO FEDERAL SEARCH (PATENT + TRADEMARK) A USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) federal search, often referred to as a patent search or trademark search, is a crucial step in the process of obtaining a patent or trademark registration in the United...
by Team EvansIPLaw | Aug 5, 2023 | Welcome to All About Inventing!
Overlapping Your Boundaries: Layering copyrights, patents, and trade dress to bolster brand protection Purpose of IP Protection Intellectual property laws, and specifically patent and copyright protection, exist to incentivize the creation of new works to promote the...
by Team EvansIPLaw | Aug 1, 2023 | Welcome to All About Inventing!
Invention Brand® with Marilyn Schendel Explore the process of brainstorming a brand name to trademarking and everything in between with Attorney Andrea Evans, owner of The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC and Marilyn Schendel. Even though making soap was something...
by Team EvansIPLaw | Jul 12, 2023 | Welcome to All About Inventing!
OBTAINING A UNITARY PATENT Unitary Patents will be granted by the EPO, in the same way as existing European patents. A Unitary Patent can be requested after grant, essentially as part of the existing national validation procedure. If a Unitary patent is requested,...
by Team EvansIPLaw | Jul 11, 2023 | Welcome to All About Inventing!
UNITARY PATENT & UNIFIED PATENT COURT THE CURRENT SYSTEM The European Patent Office examines and grants “European patents” which must be validated in individual countries in order to have effect. A European patent can currently be validated in 38 contracting...
