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Employment Law

Can I Find Criminal Records Offline?

09th December 2009
The internet is a wonderful invention and one of the things it helps us to do is to find a criminal record. A process which might once have taken hours, days and even weeks to complete can now be completed within a matter of moments, but is it possible to...
Author: Michael H.
Copyright & Trademark

How to Patent Your Idea or Invention

08th December 2009
If you have a great, original idea that you believe people would pay for - a process, a product, an invention, a new use for an old device - then you need to take steps to protect it. The road from inspiration to patented invention is simple to explain, a...
Author: Robert Bell
Copyright & Trademark

A Brief Explanation of Trademark Laws

07th December 2009
Trademark law is one of the three branches of Intellectual Property Law. The other branches are Patent Law and Copyright Law. As an overview, patent law guards new inventions that can be valuable by giving the owner or patentee the right to keep out o...
Author: Chet Lawrence
Copyright & Trademark

The Difference Between Patents and Trademarks

05th November 2009
1. Plant patent - a type of patent wherein anyone formulates a new variety of plant commonly through asexual reproduction. 2. Utility patent - a type of patent wherein anyone uncovers any new and functional procedure, mechanism, piece of manufacture,...
Author: Chet Lawrence
Copyright & Trademark

Why you should think twice about Provisional Patent Applications

20th August 2009
In the past, it was typically accepted as standard practice for an inventor to write up a really quick and dirty patent application, draft up some quick drawings with the kids' crayons and send it off to the USPTO as a provisional patent application. Occa...
Author: sbbarca
Legal

THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATENT CLAIMS

24th July 2009
There are many different types of claims of a patent application. Some patent claims are about the type of invention. There are apparatus claims, method or process claims, claims to designs, chemical composition, etc. There are also claims which are r...
Author: sbbarca
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