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Intellectual Property Law Office in Auburn, CA

About Inventive Law Inc.

The Legal Professionals at Inventive Law Inc. Are Committed To The Protection Of Inventions, Brand Names, and Copyrighted Works.

We Handle All Aspects Of Intellectual Property, Including Patents, Trademarks, And Copyrights. We Offer Free Consultations To Evaluate All Aspects Of Your Intellectual Property, Your Business Goals, And Your Strategy For Adding Value To Your Business Through Your Intellectual Property.

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    What we do.

    Patents

    A PATENT FOR AN INVENTION (SOMETHING USEFUL, UNIQUE AND NON-OBVIOUS) IS THE GRANT OF A PROPERTY RIGHT TO THE INVENTOR, ISSUED BY A GOVERNMENT OR AN AUTHORIZED MULTI-NATIONAL AGENCY.

    Trademarks

    A TRADEMARK IS A WORD, NAME, SYMBOL, OR PERCEIVABLE INDICIA, WHICH IS USED TO INDICATE THE ORIGIN OF A PRODUCT AND TO DISTINGUISH THAT PRODUCT FROM OTHERS. SIMILARLY, A SERVICE MARK IDENTIFIES AND DISTINGUISHES A SERVICE RATHER THAN A PRODUCT. IN SOME CASES, A COLOR, SMELL, OR SOUND CAN BE TRADEMARKED.

    Copyrights

    COPYRIGHTS PROTECT AUTHORS OF “ORIGINAL WORKS” WHETHER THEY ARE PUBLISHED OR UNPUBLISHED. THE 1976 COPYRIGHT ACT GENERALLY GIVES THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO:
    – Reproduce
    – Prepare derivative works
    – Make and distribute copies
    – Perform or display the copyrighted work publicly.

    INVENTIVE LAW INC. will help you:

    Build a patent portfolio

    Register a trademark

    Develop an intellectual property strategy

    Learn how to use intellectual property to improve your business

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    Articles Regarding; Intellectual property (IP), Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights

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    USPTO Patent Grants Increase in Numbers

    Although December has just begun, the USPTO has already issued more patents in calendar year 2014 than in any other prior year.  I expect that the total will be around 304,000 utility patents issued this year. The number of grants has more than doubled since 2005. Source: Patentlyo.com & USPTO.gov

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    Software and business method patents

    Software and method patents may appear to have fallen out of favor because of recent court decisions and legislation. However, recent trends indicate that they comprise surprisingly high portions of four US companies’ recent grants. Source: IPWatchdog

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    The Effect of Patents on the US Economy

    Patents and Economic Growth: A Beautiful Experiment Any time someone proposes changes in the patent system, they can expect to encounter platitudes about how important the protection of “intellectual property” (a term invented in the 1970’s) is to innovation and prosperity. Just about everyone involved in the system seems to accept the notion that patents […]

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    New Year, New Patent Reforms

    The current outlook for legislative patent reform in 2015 is not so much whether reforms will be enacted but instead how far they will go.  In a Chamber of Commerce IP event on November 18, Representative Goodlatte and Senator Coons will discuss their outlook on IP legislation in the new term. Source: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/11/update-patent-reform.html

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    Nissan, Honda, Toyota | Auto Patents

    We recently took a look at the Big Three in American auto manufacturing. Today, we’re increasing our coverage of innovation in vehicles by taking a look at the recent inventions from a trio of major automobile manufacturers based in Japan: Nissan Motor Company Ltd. of Yokohama, Honda Motor Co. of Tokyo, and the Toyota Motor […]

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    The Story of One of the Most Prolific Inventors in History

    In 1928, a 19-year-old Edwin Land, who would later become the father of instant photography and the founder of Polaroid, dropped out of Harvard before the end of his freshman year. He had to finish his experiments on an invention he thought had tremendous commercial potential: the plastic polarizer. [Source: The Atlantic]

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    Apple’s Back With Another Patent: Hand Gestures

    On most of Apple’s devices, users can control just about any aspect of them with a tap on a screen or a swipe of a touchpad. But in the future, users may be able to do the same with a wave of a hand or other hand gestures. A newly revealed invention by the company […]

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    A Photographer’s Fight Against a Dumb Patent

    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawyer Daniel Nazer’s Sisyphean task is right in his job title: he’s the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents. So when Nazer says he’s seen one of the all-time dumbest patents, that’s saying a lot. Yesterday, Nazer and his fellow EFF lawyer Vera Ranieri filed court papers seeking to invalidate […]

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    John Deere’s New Patents Reveal Farming Innovations

    Deere & Company, which also goes under the brand name of John Deere, is an American corporation headquartered in Moline, IL, which develops and manufactures machinery and heavy equipment for agricultural, forestry, construction and other industries. [Source: IPWatchdog]

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