NO. You cannot resubmit your patent application if it has been dead for 10 years.

(Think about it. How would it be fair if you apply for a patent, the Patent Office rejects it, the file is closed, other companies in the industry see your published patent application knowing that the... View More

OK, so here is the situation. You have two separate issues: (1) can you make and sell your energy drink?, and (2) can you patent it to keep others from copying your invention? The first question is typically the more important one.

(1) To make sure that you do not infringe on other... View More

I am sorry to hear about your tribulations, but regarding the patent: you do not own the patent. You assigned your rights to the invention to the Deparment of Energy in December 2012, after the patent application was filed but before the patent issued.

It is not your patent, and the DoE... View More

Yes, that is correct: each of the inventors has a right to do with the patent rights as he pleases, without accounting or profit sharing with others.

In this case, though, you do have to be very careful that the rights were not actually assigned to the California LLC, and that if there was... View More

There is nothing to negotiate -- the patent is expired. The patent expired on 11/30/2018 due to non-payment of maintenance fee.

Feel free to use anything in the patent however you want.

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No. You cannot patent it.

The reason that you cannot patent it is that you are simply doing what people have been doing since the mid/late 1980s. You are just applying it to a new area.

As an aside, I am not sure I understand the nature of your statement that it is the... View More

Yes, this is common. Inventor A gets a patent for an invention, and then inventor B files for an improvement to the invention. Inventor A cannot practice the improved version because inventor B has a patent on it, and Inventor A cannot practice either the original invention nor the improved... View More

Yes, I believe that it should be patentable.

What I like about our invention as far as patenting it goes, is that it is a combination of three parts: a holding technique, a way to assemble parts of the kit, and a drumming technique.

However, be prepared to face two very large... View More

When the term of the patent or the copyright expires.

The idea of a patent is a contract between an inventor and the public, as represented by the government. The inventor discloses the invention, which is valuable to the public, to the society, and gets something in return. The inventor... View More

You may be out of luck.

Good companies listen to their customers. Often, a company is told of an idea by its customer, supplier, vendor, employee, etc., and the company develops the idea into an invention, which is then patented.

If you pitched your invention to company, then... View More

You can't.

Look, a patent is a business tool. A patent costs about as much as a pick up truck. It is typically a small part of a multi-million dollar set of assets of a company.

If you do not have money for a patent (tens of thousands of dollars), how are you going to have... View More

If you want to protect your shop from others using either zuladesignstudio or zula, then you file for a registered trademark. You can either file it yourself or have a lawyer do it.

There is no copyright issue.

Did you enter into a contract with the inventor? If not, then no.

Not simply "an attorney". It must be a patent attorney (or a patent agent). Make sure that you are looking at patent attorneys only.

There are many places on the internet (such as reddit) where you can discuss the patenting process, and the advantage/disadvantage of getting a patent for your business.

You do not need to worry about what you need to get for a patent. That will be the job of your patent attorney. What... View More

It is possible for someone to start up another coupon site. You just have to be outside of the scope of the claims. In this particular case, the four patents have very long independent claims, suggesting that one should be able to work around these claims.

If you are trying to start an... View More

You should be able to contact the patent owner, and make a deal with the owner just like you would for leasing or buying a car, a machine, or a factory.

But before you do reach out to the patent owner, you should talk to a patent attorney. There are several things that the attorney should... View More

This is a very common problem. I presume that you want to have your name on the patent as one of the co-inventors so that you can put it on your resume/CV, and not get an ownership stake in the patent.

If you really have a good argument to be listed as a co-inventor, reach out to the... View More

Only to a specific country.

A government can grant a patent only within a jurisdiction of its own country. It cannot grant rights to people and businesses outside of its jurisdiction.

However, if someone patents something in one country, generally, another person cannot get a... View More

No, I am sorry, but there really is no way to do that. You'll need to hire an attorney to fight it.

In some countries, the judgment of a court in the US is not-enforceable. If you don't have any property to be seized in the US, and there is no way to collect it in India, it is... View More