EARLY U.S. PATENT LAW SYSTEM detecting-lever-737809_1280 The Genesis The patent law system in early colonial America was virtually nonexistent. In 1776, America was an agrarian society. Crops, primarily cotton and tobacco, were traded with England and France for hard goods such as guns and plows. George Washington was troubled by this situation. The economy of… Read more
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The U.S. Patent Office was established as a bureau of the Department of State in 1802 and subsequently transferred by Executive Order to the Department of Commerce, its present location. The name was changed from the Patent Office to Patent and Trademark Office in 1975. During the latter part of the 1800’s, after nearly 500,000… Read more
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Imagine one day you’re surfing the web, going about your own business, when all of a sudden you spot a photo you recognize. That’s unmistakably your photo, except you never posted it to this website. It all of a sudden becomes clear that somebody is using your image without your permission. Maybe they’ve even gone… Read more
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You’ve been using a slogan in your business for a number of years. You haven’t taken any legal measures to protect any rights you might have in it, and you learn that somebody is trying to gain exclusive rights to that same slogan. Now you want to protect what you’ve been using for years. BRAND… Read more
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