Intellectual Property Overview with IP and Venture Capital Due Dilligence Considerations

Intellectual Property Overview with IP and Venture Capital

Due Dilligence Considerations

The below video covers intellectual property (“IP”) basics and IP and venture capital due dilligence investment and M&A considerations.

 

A Few Show Note Highlights – IP and Venture Capital Due Dilligence

IP Basics 

  1. Trademarks: identify the source of products and services
  2. Copyrights: protect the expression of original works of authorship
  3. Utility Patents: protect new, useful, & non-obvious inventions
  4. Trade Secrets: protects valuable secret information

Reasons Why TM Registration is Important Include:

  1. Presumptions of ownership and validity
  2. “Preserves” your right to expand nationally
  3. As well as other valuable benefit

Trademark Due Dilligence Considerations Include:

  1. Core marks and goods/services registered globally?
  2. TM licenses & quality control?
  3. Trademark licenses recorded?
  4. Liens?
  5. Chain of title clean?

U.S. Patents Grant:

  1. The Right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale or importing the invention.
  2. Not the right to practice the invention.

 

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Trademark Owner Email Address Now Masked in TSDR – USPTO Alert

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Alert

Trademark Owner Email Address Now Masked in TSDR

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today that it has addressed brand owners’ and trademark counsels’ concern about the USPTO’s practice of publicly listing trademark owners’ email addresses in the online trademark record.  The USPTO will now “mask” trademark owner email address from public view.

Concerns include email spamming and trademark renewal scams. 

This is great news for brand owners and outside trademark counsel!

USPTO ANNOUNCEMENT

“We’re taking steps to address your concerns about owner email addresses being visible in TSDR. The owner email address field is now masked in TEAS and TEASi documents viewable in TSDR, including submissions viewable in the documents tab, application programming interfaces (APIs), and PDF downloads. Unrepresented owner email addresses will still be viewable in the correspondence email address field. When you open a TEAS or TEASi document in TSDR, you’ll see “XXXX” in the owner email address field. We believe this will help reduce the number of solicitations you receive.”

Need to file a trademark application? Respond to an Office action? Global Audit? 

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