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Patent Application – Evaluating the patentability of an invention

11/12/2020

You are under no obligation to conduct a prior art search before filing a patent application, and indeed, not all applications are preceded by such a search for want of time or lack of access to patent search facilities...

Invention and Patent – Reasons for patenting an invention

21/02/2020

1. Competitive edge, market power and earning more money

Invention and Patent – One way of adding value to a product

27/07/2019

In an increasingly knowledge‐driven economy, you invariably need creative or inventive ideas or concepts to improve an existing feature, add a useful new feature to your product or develop a

Trademark management – Trademark audit

24/07/2019

Given the considerable investment required for brand building a business ought to also periodically audit its efforts in doing so. This will help to verify whether all its activities are in conformity with the stated obj...

Trademark management – How to use a trademark

18/07/2019

Improper use of a trademark may result in its loss that is, making it a generic term that is no longer distinctive of a particular manufacturer’s product or provider’s service. In the past, this has happened to many lead...

Multi - protection – Design and Trademark

11/07/2019

Let us explain a little about when an industrial design can be also protected by or as a trademark. In other words, is it possible to have a dual design and trademark protection? You will recall that a trademark is a dis...

Multi - protection – Design and Copyright

28/08/2018

In some countries a design may be protected simultaneously by copyright law and by industrial design law. What does that mean? It is a very important and difficult question, which has to be answered frequently in the out...

Protecting Intellectual Property: An Easy Guide for Startups

21/08/2018

Written by Todd Baker This article was originally published on UpCounsel. What Is Intellectual Property? Intellectual property (IP) is a general term for the rights recognized by U.S. law for creations of the mind, inclu...

Multi - protection – Industrial Design and Patent/Utinity Model

07/04/2018

Sometimes, it is difficult to separate the elements of functionality from those of the form of a product. Take the example of the shape of a vehicle, or the keyboard of a computer or laptop. How do you protect such compo...

Basic steps registration – Industrial Design

04/12/2017

The procedure for registering industrial designs is similar to that for trademarks, but normally, the time taken for registering a design is shorter than for registration of a trademark. In most countries, design registr...

Basic steps registration – Trademark

26/09/2017

The actual steps taken by a trademark office to register a mark vary from country to country but, broadly speaking, all trademark offices follow a similar procedure:

The value of registration – Industrial Design

07/04/2017

Design registration makes business sense when it improves the competitiveness of a business and brings in additional revenue in one or more of the following ways:

The value of registration - Trademark

06/03/2017

It is true that unregistered marks are also protected as marks. So, registration of a mark is not essential for its use as a trademark, especially in a common law country. In addition to, or in the absence of, common law...

Product Extension and branding

15/02/2017

Many businesses use an existing brand for a new product to save time and money. Product extensions are new products or services introduced under an established brand name either in the same (line extension) or a new (bra...

Branding strategies

08/02/2017

As a lot of expense may be incurred in creating, registering, using, monitoring, and protecting a mark, therefore, would you recommend the use of one mark for all products of a business or a new mark for each new product...