Comments on: Patent and Trademark Protection – How to Protect Yours http://www.smbceo.com/2007/06/25/patent-and-trademark-protection-how-to-protect-yours/ Resources and Knowledge for the Small Business CEO Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel Ballard http://www.smbceo.com/2007/06/25/patent-and-trademark-protection-how-to-protect-yours/#comment-8463 Daniel Ballard Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:31 +0000 http://smbceo.com/2007/06/25/patent-and-trademark-protection-how-to-protect-yours/#comment-8463 Managing your company's intellectual property -- it's trade secrets, inventions, brand-identifiers, copyrightable material -- requires much specialized knowledge. The information on the internet that you know you can trust comes from the governmental agencies that regulate intellectual property. See below. It is worthwhile to sit down with an intellectual property attorney to discuss what you can do yourself and what you will need help to do. Copyright: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/ Patents: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html Trademarks: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/ Managing your company’s intellectual property — it’s trade secrets, inventions, brand-identifiers, copyrightable material — requires much specialized knowledge. The information on the internet that you know you can trust comes from the governmental agencies that regulate intellectual property. See below.

It is worthwhile to sit down with an intellectual property attorney to discuss what you can do yourself and what you will need help to do.

Copyright: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/

Patents: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html

Trademarks: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/

]]> By: Ashley Gibson http://www.smbceo.com/2007/06/25/patent-and-trademark-protection-how-to-protect-yours/#comment-594 Ashley Gibson Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:54:03 +0000 http://smbceo.com/2007/06/25/patent-and-trademark-protection-how-to-protect-yours/#comment-594 Having worked on a number of patents myself I know the value and the cost. A cheap way to get your invention recognized is to file a provisional patent. You can file one yourself pretty easily (there are loads of resources to help you) and it gives you a year to file the application itself. It marks the date from which you can defend you eventual patent. BTW, Google has a cool patent search feature - http://www.google.com/patents Having worked on a number of patents myself I know the value and the cost. A cheap way to get your invention recognized is to file a provisional patent. You can file one yourself pretty easily (there are loads of resources to help you) and it gives you a year to file the application itself. It marks the date from which you can defend you eventual patent.

BTW, Google has a cool patent search feature – http://www.google.com/patents

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