Baker & Associates PLLC successfully obtained registration of a US trademark. Alfwear Inc. is hereby awarded a US trademark registration 4468589 for ÜBERKÜHL.
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Baker & Associates PLLC successfully obtained registration of a US trademark. Alfwear Inc. is hereby awarded a US trademark registration 4468589 for ÜBERKÜHL.
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One of the most common client questions is whether to perform a patent search prior to filing a patent. As with all legal questions, it depends on multiple variables and is most likely more complicated than expected.
A patent search can only reduce the risk of a patent application failing to obtain issuance. A patent application can be rejected as an obvious combination of existing technology. However, almost all patents are based in part on previously existing technology.
The process of preparing and filing a patent application is directed at preparing a complex technical and legal document that meets the technical disclosure requirements and strategically maps out the technology.
One of the requirements to obtain a patent is that the underlying concept/technology must be new. The term “new” refers to all technology and knowledge and therefore even if the concept to be patented is disclosed in British magazine or a South African patent, it is still existing and thereby not new.
Patent searching uses strategies that include key word searching to identify relevant technology based on an inventors description of their concept. However, if an existing patent uses dramatically different terminology, it is unlikely an existing patent would be identified with general key word search. Professional patent searching includes other techniques such as classification and family searching to increase the accuracy of identifying all relevant patents.
Most patent applications filed within the last 18 months are kept confidential by the US patent office. Therefore, regardless of how much patent searching is performed, it is always possible that someone filed a patent on the exact same concept a month earlier.
Baker & Associates PLLC successfully obtained registration of a US trademark. Carbon Innovations LLC is hereby awarded a US trademark registration for EP.
Baker & Associates PLLC successfully obtained issuance of a new patent. Workshop XI, Inc. is hereby awarded US Patent 8539646 for coupling systems.