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I just wrote a blog post on why i think that 'traditional knowledge' should not be recognised as an IP right: https://www.rubiconpersonalip.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=114
... would disclosing the names of people involved to an attorney who I might not hire hurt me in any way ? I am saying that I might have to talk to few of them & I can only hire one, so how carefully should I approach them & how much details should I disclose to them ?
Also what category this case falls under ? Copyright OR Trade Secret ?
... i am starting a clothing company and my abbreviated company name ....is already used by another company but as the word itself.... will i run into issues when getting a trademark or llc? its is in the same industry(retail) but in another state. please help since this would mean i have to start back at scratch.
.... but I think working for a firm would potentially create conflict of interest issues for an examiner.
Another question I have, which may be dumb, is whether the university could potentially attach some sort of disclaimed that said (in plain terms) "We are not the rightful copyright owner of these images so you, author, can use them, but at your own risk."
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
There is a rouge website with the address mpaa.org. It is a horrible rouge website ...
... They are not going to not consider you because you weren't a summer associate. You had a good reason for not being a summer associate: you had a full time job already. A full time job at the PTO. Examining patent applications. No firm that you would actually want to work for would view that as a strike against you.
...We have a family of 6 cases they share a spec but are directed to different inventions. We had an allowance come in for one case in early March. We had an OA come in for one of the other cases in mid April. ....We interviewed the other case with the OA a fee [few] days after paying the issue fee in the allowed case. We have been cross citing all art so we want to cite the art from the OA in the allowed case even though some of the art in my opinion is cumulative. We told her we have to pull the case from issue to cite the art. ....The client is VERY upset ...Any advice on how to deal with her? ... [again]... We took a look at the art again and it is cumulative of what has been cited already but since we have cross cited everything so far, stopping now would potentially seem like we are intentionally not citing the art. ....
Just enjoy your life and catch every moment .
Is there any real benefit of filing a CIP as opposed to a new application with the new matter added? I never really understood the benefit of a CIP.
I have a question as to how this clause of 37 CFR 1.97(e)(2) is interpreted. If an Office action is received for example on 1/1/13, but not looked at or reviewed until 3/25/13 (it was reported to the client right after receipt but not reviewed by them or the practitioner until 3/25/13 for whatever reasons), and then the practitioner sees a reference in the OA that he wants to cite in a related case, does the clock of the 3 months start at 3/15/13, or does the clock start at 1/1/13? Can he file the IDS within a couple weeks of becoming aware of the reference even if it falls outside of 4/1/13?
I would think under this circumstance he could still file the IDS until 6/15/13 and still be ok under 1.97(e)(2). But would this come under attack possibly later, because the Office Action was received on 1/1/13 so the IDS should have been filed no later than 4/1/13?
Do questions get answered in this forum anymore? Just checking, it used to be filled with activity and you could get some great advice.
I have owned a trademark since 1996 that I use to brand a clothing line. I owned a registration of the mark for over ten years and have always sold clothing with the mark since the beginning. Last year I noticed that I had let my registration become abandoned so I applied again and it has since been approved and is in the final stages of registration, so all is back to normal with the registration.
Now the other story. Back in about 1998 a rock band wrote a song with the title of my mark. It became very popular and at the time I contacted the band about my trademark and asked them if they ever wanted to do a joint business venture selling clothing to please contact me. I also insured them that I had been selling clothing with the trademark before they had written their song. They never responded but as their song became more popular I periodically would contact them and suggest "we work together" to sell some clothing. They never responded. One time I "friended" them on myspace and I would post things on their wall about my clothing line and send links to my page that displayed my clothes. They wrote back once saying that the clothes were cool but they didn't have plans to start selling clothing. This was back in 2006-07.
Flash forward to 2012. I have continued to sell clothing with the trademark and even licensed it to a couple organizations for use of t-shirts and then I realize that I let the mark go abandoned. The fear set in that I had really blew it but luckily no one else tried to register the mark and soon I will own the registration again. But as a precaution I also did a google search of my trademark with the words "t-shirt" and "clothing" attached and low and behold, the rock band began selling t-shirts, caps and hoodies with my trademark on them. They even started a non-profit organization using the name of my trademark and are using an acronym of my trademark, which I called my myspace page and put in my shirt labels, inside the labels of the clothing.
They went years not producing any clothing with the mark because they didn't want to license it from me but once they saw that the registration had become abandoned, they thought they had license to forget I existed and started using the mark as their own. The problem is that even though I abandoned the registration, I did not abandon use of the trademark and now have the registration back. They likely assumed that because the registration was abandoned, the trademark was abandoned but I know that is not true.
Besides contacting an ip attorney, what would likely be my first course of action? I have the myspace pages showing them as friends with our correspondences on their wall, proof that they knew I existed.
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