How To Avoid Becoming A Victim of Identity Theft

With identity theft statistics currently at an all time high, and climbing, it just makes sense that we should all be doing everything we can to protect ourselves.

Workplace Identity Theft: The Threat From Within

This article discusses the problem of identity theft in the workplace and how to prevent it.

Patents For Inventors - Your Questions Answered

Are you confused about what a patent is and whether you should get one? This is primer for beginning inventors that answers your most commonly asked questions. Questions include what is a patent, what is patent pending, what protection does a patent provide, should you keep your invention secret, and more. A must-read for inventors at all experience levels.

Everything You Need to Know About Trademarks and Fair Use

Everything You Need to Know About Trademarks and Fair Use

The Intellectual Property Audit - Finding What You Have (Part I of V)

Does your organization account for over 80% of its assets? These assets are not bank accounts or physical possessions; they are not even your real estate. They are the product of your organization's collective mind: your intellectual property. Find out how to find and quantify your IP in this article.

Data Protection - Database Right For Sales Agencies

A ruling by the High Court has resulted in new case law governing sales agencies with regard to database rights. Where a sales agency has built up a database of customer details, they will now own a database right in that database in the event that there is not an agreement with another party as to the ownership of that database.

Find Email Address Quickly and Easily Like I Did

Last year I remembered a friend I met on holiday, you know how it is you get chatting and always say we must stay in touch so you swap numbers or email addresses and that’s that.

Should You Sell Or License Your New Product Or Idea

A patent is your property and as such you have the legal right to do with it as you wish. Generally you would choose to sell your patent if you would...

Intellectual Property – Ground Breaking Decision – Patents – Business Methods – Computer Programs

A ground-breaking decision was delivered by the Court of Appeal in the cases of Aerotel Ltd v Telco Holdings Ltd (and others) [2006] and Macrossan’s Application [2006] on 27 October 2006. This important decision means that there is now a new method by which patent examiners will assess whether or not an invention is patentable. The decision is especially relevant to those wishing to patent ‘business methods’ or ‘computer programs’.

IPC Classsification

One of the hot topics in the IP world today is IPC reform. Due to be published on 1 July 2005, and to come into effect on 1 January 2006, the eighth version of the IPC classification system (also referred to as IPC 2006) may not seem radically different from the previous IPC7, on first blush. But there are important benefits for patent searchers, attorneys, examiners and IP manager

Intellectual Property Considerations

Intellectual Property is one of the hardest things to protect. If you file a patent it becomes public information and if someone copies it and changes one thing, they basically stole your idea for free then it is your duty to try to sue them; that costs you thousands.

Intellectual Property: Community Trade Marks – Registration Refusal – Likelihood of Confusion

In Alcon Inc v Of Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) [2005], a mark was refused registration because the public was likely to confuse the mark with another similar mark.

Intellectual Property – Patentability of Computer Programmes - Exclusions

Patenting computer programmes

2006 Trends in Intellectual Patent Rights

The costs to get a patent and the time it takes to get one due to the bureaucracy of the US Patent and Trademark Office is out of control. No longer can small garage inventors afford to get a patent for something they built in their garage that the world really needs.

Intellectual Property Will Soon be History

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