Which patent?

There have been a number of questions of this type. There is often confusion between two different concepts: inventorship and ownership.

An inventor is someone that made a non-obvious contribution to the project that ended up in at least one claim in the issued patent. The inventors are... View More

Usually not. But, the analysis is often more complex than a simple, "Yes" or "No" answer. There are numerous factors to consider.

If someone creates a device, and patents that device, then he can keep others from making, using, selling, or offering for sale of that device.

The patent owner can keep almost anyone from using it, whether it is for a good use of an evil use. The patent owner can say, hey, I am going to... View More

I used to work for a firm that defended the original Bell telephone patent court (long long before I was born). So I am well aware that improvements to a particular device such as a telephone may continue to come out for a hundred years or so. It is possible that your patent claims one set of... View More

Being that the question remains open, at this point, the best way to find out could be to contact several attorneys and ask about their fees. Combined with some online research, that should provide a reasonable ballpark. Good luck

Tim Akpinar

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answered on Mar 1, 2020

If he was a resident of Puerto Rico and left a Will, it will need to be probated in Puerto Rico. If he left it to you some other way there may be other ways to deal with it.

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answered on Feb 10, 2020

Whether you infringe a pre-existing patent(s) with your product/method can likely be greater informed by completing a prior art search.

If you do not have a product and want to file a patent application based on your invention, a prior art search should still be completed.

If you... View More

That is a tough question. You can hire an attorney to give you a good answer, but it will cost you much more money than you could ever make on the toy.

Here is a safer bet: if there is toy that has been around for the past 20 years or longer, then you should be safe from patent... View More

I assume that you have designed some sort of a bottle or a container for holding nail polish, hair gel, mascara, body lotion, etc.

You have several options.

First, you should trademark the name of your product, and possibly the logo.

Second, you may want to get a design... View More

You cannot claim something natural. It has to be manmade.

You can claim a machine or device that uses air. For instance, a hot air balloon.

Once the patent issues or a patent application is published, then you should be able to see details in the assignment database at https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search . You will also be able to see the relevant information in Public PAIR once you know the application... View More

Is what an actual patent or just an application?

You may want to resubmit this question wither with a link or a document number.

Ideally, the process would not get that far. The attorney should ask each prospective client to say without disclosing anything proprietary what type of good or service have you improved? When the attorney learned that the second inventor was in the same space as the first client (possibly with... View More

Sorry, but no. You will likely not be able to patent glow in the dark glasses, just by taking glasses and putting a glow in the dark paint on them. Putting a glow in the dark tape or paint on things to make those things glow in the dark pretty obvious; that is the whole point of having glow in... View More

Your question did not include the patent number.

But here are some basic pointers.

1) Make sure that the patent of potential interest is still in force. It may have expired at the end of its full term. It may have lapsed early for failure to pay a maintenance fee.

2) Look... View More

As a person with curiosity, you should develop your skills using the free patent search tools. Some useful tips are in my slide set on patent searching that I provide to entrepreneurs. http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching. I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

Boardgames have traditionally been protected by copyrights and by trademarks.

This is good news for you, because it looks like the protection is going to be relatively cheap.

Good luck in Indianapolis!

You are going to have to hire an attorney to help you with this. Especially if you received a cease and desist letter.

You should also note that there are 4 other patents in this family (specifically, 9,162,127; 9,463,367; 9,480,894; and 9,999,816) that might be relevant to you.... View More

You can ask them to sign agreements. The agreement should be written by a law firm that frequently does this sort of work. A agreement that you write based on something that you found on the internet is not really a good answer.

Depending on the country where they manufacturer is located,... View More