Applying for a patent or trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) comes with an unexpected risk —your mailing and email addresses become part of the public record.

Patent and trademark applicants are likely to see significant changes with their applications in 2025. First, numerous fee increases have recently taken effect – on January 18 for trademark ...

“The tension between patents and trade dress protection is most evident when the alleged trade dress (or aspects thereof) has been disclosed in a utility patent.” Patents and trademarks protect ...

Register a trademark to legally protect brand identity and ensure broad protection. Understanding differences between trademark, patent, and copyright is crucial for protection. Trademark clarity and ...

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it will no longer issue patents in a printed “ribbon copy” form as of April 18, 2023. Instead, patents will now only be issued electronically ...

Entrepreneurs tend to have a lot of things that they want to patent, trademark, or copyright. That means going through some government bureaucracy to get things done. Is it exasperating? Yes.

In about three decades of serving the Tri-State Area in Congress, one thing I heard repeatedly was frustration with the federal government’s lack of accountability and transparency. In Cincinnati, ...

The mania over people paying to own one-of-a kind, cartoonish characters or short video clips stored in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, is over — but the legal questions around ownership is heating up.

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight The newest revised Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law came into ...