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Intellectual Property
At the Law Office of Warren V. Norred in Arlington, TX, attorney services include those of experienced patent attorneys.
Intellectual Property typically refers to the protection of inventions, songs, books, trade secrets, and logos or other identifying trademarks. Depending on what you are trying to protect, a trademark or patent attorney can help you by filing appropriate documents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (for inventions and trademarks), the United States Copyright Office (which is part of the Library of Congress), or developing the contractual documents and licenses necessary to protect important data.
Not all attorneys can be a patent attorney; they must be registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Applications usually take about two months to prepare, and can easily take two years or more to get through the USPTO, depending on the type of invention. The full cost of filing a patent, including attorney fees and filing with the USPTO tend to start at about $4000, and goes up from there.
Trademark registration is far less expensive and consuming than patent applications, typically between five hundred and a thousand dollars for simple trademark registrations. The process for a trademark registration typically takes a half-year to a year, but can go either slower or faster.
Copyrights protect the work of authors, such as song and book writers. The process for copyright registration is fast, taking not much more time than collecting the information concerning the work to be registered and putting it in order.
“Trade secret” is a phrase given to industry know-how and other secrets about how a company does something different to give it an edge on its competition. The most famous trade secret is the recipe for Coke™. To protect trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements and other contracts are used, which outline the restrictions placed on the parties involved in the transfer or sharing of the secret information.
Licensing of intellectual property has allowed the unbridled growth of today’s technological age. Well-drafted licenses can earn an inventor a good living for the rest of his life; badly-drafted licenses allow manufacturers to abuse inventors and steal their ideas while paying nothing or very little. Protect yourself by having an experienced patent attorney examine any license agreement before signing.
Sometimes an idea can and should be protected in multiple ways. Whether you live in or near Arlington, TX, attorney services are just a phone call away. Call the Law Office of Warren V. Norred to schedule a discussion about protecting your bright idea, book, song, or invention
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