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answered on Feb 4, 2020

Usually, in the sale of a business, the sale agreement includes the goodwill of the business and its name. Your rights in the name will depend on what the agreement says as to ownership of the name. If, in fact, you did not sell the name, then your rights are dependent on how you are currently... View More

If the urinal screens are patented with a current patent, then the product should be marked with a patent number. If they did not mark the item, they may have placed the patent number on the box or shipping container. You may want to do some searching using tips in this slide set.... View More

https://patents.google.com/?q=corn&assignee=sygenta&country=US

That should narrow down the pool and ideally has what you are looking for. If not you can take a look at all assets assigned to Syngenta via the assignment database --... View More

The issue date, also known as the grant date, is the date at which the patent becomes enforceable. After that time, the patent owner can prevent others from making, selling, or using the claimed invention.

Regarding when a patent expires, this is probably the most common question in patent... View More

I do not know the specific patent number you are referencing so I will give a generic answer.

NOTE -- some of these steps can be done in different orders but I listed the easier steps first.

1) Calculate when the term for this patent if all maintenance fees are paid. See my... View More

No.

Because any land in NJ is subject to the US Constitution, the government has the right of eminent domain.

You will have to continue to pay taxes. Sorry.

(Disclaimer: I do not do real estate law, just patent law, but this seemed like an easy question to answer.... View More

I would try to put onto Google Drive, or any other similar off-site services, anything that you want to keep secret.

It is likely OK, and many attorneys may not worry about it, so I do not mean to scare you. But the problem is that the area of law regarding confidentiality of electronic... View More

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answered on Aug 12, 2017

If you have violated another person's intellectual property rights, by making the devices that you are selling, yes you can be in violation of criminal laws, and subject to very harsh financial penalties (under civil aspects of patent violation or copyright laws) and possible jail time.... View More

Anywhere between about $2,000 and $15,000.

Most patents can be drafted in the neighborhood of $5,000 to $10,000. If it is much below $5,000 or much above $10,000, there should be some sort of a reason for it.

Good luck!

It is likely that a vending machine for disposable scrubs would be covered by any number of patents for vending machines (or on various parts of vending machines), even if nobody has ever thought of using vending machines to dispense scrubs. Why? Because patent claims are typically written as... View More

Dear fellow New Jersian --

Under the US laws, there are 4 broad types of work protection:

(1) PATENTS, that protect inventions (new things, new way of doing things);

(2) TRADEMARKS, that protect names and symbols;

(3) COPYRIGHT, that protects an expression; and... View More

You can contact the owner of the patent with an offer, I highly suggest that before you do this that you talk to a local patent attorney lawyer. Good Luck