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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    COPYRIGHTS PROTECT AUTHORS OF “ORIGINAL WORKS” WHETHER THEY ARE PUBLISHED OR UNPUBLISHED.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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    Inventive Law Inc. Blog

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

    News & Blog

    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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    Democrats Force Redskins Football Team to Change Name

    Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) has introduced legislation to force the Washington Redskins football team to change its name. Honda’s bill would prohibit the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from issuing new trademarks using the term “redskins” as a reference to Native Americans, as well as retroactively eliminate existing trademarks. [Source: The Hill]

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    Victory for Netflix in a Dutch Patent Suit

    European Netflix users, breathe easy: The video streaming service can keep operating as it always did now that Dutch patent lawsuit has been thrown out of court. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2860632/netflix-wins-dutch-patent-suit-can-keep-operating-as-usual.html

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    Major Copyright Rules Revision [2014]

    The Case of the Monkey Photographer Back in 2011, photographer David Slater found himself in a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, taking pictures of critically endangered crested black macaque monkeys. After taking some pictures of the monkeys, Slater set his camera down, where one of the monkeys picked it up. The monkey then began […]

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    USPTO Questions Foreign Agent-Client Privilege

    A bedrock of U.S. legal practice is attorney-client privilege that allows a party to keep certain communications secret. This is an important exception to the broad discovery that is ordinarily permitted in U.S. civil litigation.

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    A Patent Broker Describes how Valuable Patents are Today

    In a recent article Toxic Asset, we explained in detail how much recent court decisions and new rules at the USPTO had negatively impacted the value of US patents. This is not to say that all patents are worthless, far from it. Actually, based on the fact that we have recently received strong offers on […]

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    Student Guide to Intellectual Property

    By definition, Intellectual Property is a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc. Now, this might be a very broad and complex definition, so let’s have a closer look […]

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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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    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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