Recently Asked Questions - Litigation

Patent Use when patent owner is deceased. In Litigation    -  updated on 1/13/2012 The creator of a patent on optical flashlights has deceased. Can I take the patent and run with it and create a product? Do i need to wait for his son to act on it? If I get permission from his son does that...   Read More    Answer

Confidentiality infringement and subsequent Patent application flawed In Litigation    -  updated on 11/20/2011 A company was formed owned by one of us as collateral as he was providing the funding and 5 of us signed Mutual Non Disclosure and Confidentiality and Invention Agreements to the Company. This was to ensure ...   Read More    Answer

Gaining ownership of an invention through 37 CFR 1.47 (b) In Litigation    -  updated on 3/9/2011 The company would like to take ownership for a utility application a former employee submitted to the USPTO. I understand it would be easy to do by filing a petition under the 37CFR 1.47(b) process. I rece...   Read More    Answer

Gaining ownership of an invention through 37 CFR 1.47 In Litigation    -  updated on 3/9/2011 The company would like to take ownership for a utility application a former employee submitted to the USPTO. I understand it would be easy to do by filing a petition under the 37CFR 1.47(b) process. I rece...   Read More    Answer

patent infringement In Litigation    -  updated on 1/27/2011 I was issued a utility patent on 2-20--2007, I filed for the patent on 3-18-04. I found someone has a design patent on my EXACT invention, looks the same, made the same, same exact materials and same functio...   Read More    Answer

Interesting queston from friend. In Litigation    -  updated on 1/19/2011 If one person applied for a patent for a medicinal preparation of a mutaed genome of the species Lucasputin Melissa that cures a disease by inhibiting the growth of Lucasputin Melissa virus that causes the s...   Read More    Answer

Patent Rights as a Consultant In Litigation    -  updated on 1/5/2011 I am a design consultant. A US based client of mine paid me to help him with improving a product. Prototypes proved that the design was far superior than they imagined. To protect themselves, my clients a...   Read More    Answer

Online Gaming In Litigation    -  updated on 12/16/2010 If I was to take a mechanical arcade game, like a claw/crane game in which you can win prizes, and made an equivalent software version, name and look put aside, put it on the internet and made money, is this...   Read More    Answer

Law In Litigation    -  updated on 11/23/2010 what happens when a defendant simply traverse the claim against him?   Read More    Answer

Polymers and additives In Litigation    -  updated on 10/3/2010 Hello, I am using a synthetic precipitated calcium carbonate 0.7 micron particle size in a polymer for a novel use, I have found a patent which describes a calcium carbonate which is made from ground limesto...   Read More    Answer