If you have an invention or idea you want to protect, it’s natural to wonder whether you need a patent lawyer — and what role one actually plays. While patents can be powerful business assets, the process of securing and enforcing them involves important strategic decisions that can affect long-term value. A patent lawyer helps inventors, entrepreneurs, and companies...
Continue ReadingHow to Trademark a Logo: What Business Owners Should Know A logo is a design, a stylized text, or both. It represents your business or product in a manner that is distinctive enough to set it apart from others. The Nike ”swoosh” symbol and the uniquely stylized lettering of the Coca-Cola trademark are two examples of internationally successful logos....
Continue ReadingIntellectual property lawyers focus on helping you protect and profit from your ideas and creations. Intellectual property, or IP, plays a huge role in the United States economy. According to a report by the U.S. Commerce Department in 2016, IP-intensive industries account for 38.2%, or $6 trillion, of the United States? gross domestic product (GDP) and support at least...
Continue ReadingHow To Prevent Intellectual Property Theft If you’re wondering how to prevent intellectual property theft, you’re not alone. Intellectual property is often one of a business’s most valuable assets, yet it is also one of the most vulnerable. From copyrights and trademarks to patents and trade secrets, protecting your IP requires awareness, planning, and ongoing attention. While no strategy...
Continue ReadingWhat is Copyright Registration? Understanding the copyright application process is an important step in learning how to register a copyright and protect your original work. From the moment you create an original work, you have an exclusive intellectual property right to make copies of your work. This is known as copyright. This right exists regardless of whether you publish...
Continue ReadingThere were a total of approximately 3.1 million unexpired patents in the United States in 2020. With so many patents covering inventions of all kinds, well-meaning companies may find that they have accidentally and allegedly infringed upon someone’s patent rights. As with other types of intellectual property, patent infringement is serious business. You may have wondered what to do...
Continue ReadingHaving a patent gives you the right to prevent others from making, using, or selling your patented invention. If a company or individual does one of these things, the patent owner may have a cause of action for a patent infringement case — and in some situations, pursuing the matter through contingency-based patent infringement litigation may be an option...
Continue ReadingContingency-fee litigation at Polasek Law Firm serves to aid clients in pursuing patent litigation that they might otherwise not be able to afford. For many small businesses and companies, patent litigation is too expensive to pursue. Contingency-fee litigation is a cost-effective means for small businesses and companies to receive skilled counsel and defend their rights in intellectual property lawsuits....
Continue ReadingIf someone uses your original work without permission, you may be able to enforce your rights against the infringer through copyright litigation. To begin the copyright lawsuit process, explained in detail in this article, you file a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court. Copyright law allows courts to award damages and issue orders requiring the infringer to stop using...
Continue ReadingTexas is one of the most active patent jurisdictions in the country, making it a key location for protecting intellectual property. Patent litigation takes place in Federal Court. Texas has four Districts (Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern), and each District is well versed in patent litigation, with the Eastern District of Texas and Western District of Texas well known...
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