Notes On Patent And Trademark Attorney

By Edward Roberts


Trademark refers to a unique identification of a business in the form of a word, symbol, logo and also a color combination. A trademark usually grants the holder rights to using, producing and earning profits, from the mark. Types of trademarks include the color mark which protects a business using a certain combination of colors for its business, word mark, which protects a business with a specific word use in its business, a sound mark, this allows a business the sole right to use a specific sound or music for its business and a descriptive mark that allows a business to solely use certain descriptive words for its product among other marks. This piece will provide an in-depth analysis of Patent and trademark attorney.

They are usually classified into two types, utility alongside design. Utility is commonly used despite the fact that it is more expensive as compared to design type. The Design type is less common used and is also easy and cheap to access.

Copyright on the other hand is a license grant by the government that gives the holder the right to sell, manufacture and design a certain product for a specific period. They are usually of two types. The first type is called design, which is cheaper and easy to obtain since it takes around two years to obtain, it provides protection to the ornamental feature of an invention and not the functionality of it and can only offer protection to one product and not its variations, due to this the design patent is less common as compared to the utility patent type.

The other type is called utility, which on the other hand, is more expensive, takes more than two years to obtain but offers protection towards the functionality feature of the product and a single patent is able to offer protection to the variations of the product and thus is more common, preferred and used as compared to design type.

Design types are cheap to obtain and take about two years to offer protection they offer protection on the ornamental features of the product such as its appearance and design and not the functional feature of the product.

Trademarks are important since it allows the consumers identify their favorite type of product or service, it also provides sole ownership and legal rights to the label logo, word, symbol etc. And allow its holder to produce and profit from the mark.

A hired lawyer helps the client choose the right type of protection for his or her business, the attorney also ensures that the chosen patent or trademark is unique from the others out there, he or she also ensures that the client patent and trademark is not being used by other business without the client permission and ensures that the clients applications have been made before the due date.

Benefits of obtaining the rights under discussion are they generate license revenue and also they reduce possible patent litigants, create a barrier to entry for competing products and also enhance the valuations of a company. Hiring a qualified lawyer to help in the course of this process is thus very necessary.




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