“Patents and Prototypes” Launches Webinar
May 1st, 2012 @ 6:30pm/pst Patents and Prototypes is for the innovator, entrepreneur, inventor or startup ready to launch a new idea and product into the world. Come watch the live show here and add our show schedule to your calendar. We’re a community of folks that believe a combination of hard work, dedication and passion can build dreams and change lives. Patents and Prototypes is not an invention promotion company. Patents and Prototypes was started with the intention to help risk takers understand the patent and product development...
read moreUS Utility Patent Issued to Victor Vidaurre
InterContinental IP would like to congratulate client Victor Vidaurre of Santiago on being issued a utility patent on his invention. With 59 claims to this invention, it consists of a System for Monitoring, Control, and Management of a Plant where Hydro-metallurgical Electro-winning or Electro-refining Processes for Non Ferrous Metals which enables measuring the process variables which comprises: at least one group of electrolytic cells, said cells having means for the collection and transmission of the variables of the process; a plurality of...
read moreA Case of Apple Infringement
Hey consumers? Are you in danger of being confused? A logo infringement case that gets less clear the closer you get to the core of the matter. Not too long ago, Apple Computer accused a Chinese company that produces flour and noodles of infringing Apple’s trademarked “Apple with a bite taken out of it”. The Chinese company, Sichuan Fangguo Food Co., Ltd., thinks that Apple is full of applesauce. The trademark in question is a stylized apple with two Chinese characters in the center, a stem and a leaf, with the lower left quarter...
read morePatent Reform Act – Why An Early Provisional Catches The Patent
Much has been written about the Leahy-Smith American Invents Act, but in terms of its effect on the average inventor, we still sense quite a bit of confusion. First and foremost, no one really knows what a law will amount to at the time it is passed. Laws are passed and lawsuits or patent challenges are mounted based on these laws, adjudicated, often appealed, and then adjudicated again. Through this process, we all learn, little by little, what the “patent reform” really means. Since some aspects of the law don’t go into effect...
read morePatent Issued for Miniature Skateboard Display & Demonstration Stand
InterContinental IP would like to congratulate our client and local inventor Corey Carrillo of Solana Beach, CA for the issue of a patent on his invention of a display rack for the sale of removable textured deck applications for miniature skateboards which can also serve as a miniature test course for a prospective purchaser to sample the merchandise before making the decision whether to buy. The display rack has a base heavy enough to keep the display rack upright, with one or more miniature skate park features such as quarter pipes,...
read moreTrademark issued for “Patents and Prototypes”
InterCotinental IP would like to congratulate client and co founder of Inventing Profit, Joe Donoghue on his recent Trademark “Patents and Prototypes” that was issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office . This trademark was issued on February 28th, 2012. You can view this Trademark and search other trademarks at the USPTO.
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