Contingency Fee Patent Applications
We recently had an inquiry in regards to whether or not we would consider going “in on” an invention idea with a client. Simple answer is we don’t take a percentage for doing the work on a client’s patent idea. This is why: The two biggest problems with “contingency fee” patents are, first, the need for a number of warning documents to the inventor regarding attorneys going into business with their clients, and second, you are “betting” on the inventor being successful. With respect to the second point,...
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InterContinental IP successfully defends Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce. For some reason, people keep picking on the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce on trademark issues. InterContinental IP has had to recently step in and rectify a couple of situations and sucessfully defend the Chamber’s trademarks. Most recently, the Chamber has had some problems with rouge members setting up LinkedIn groups using the Carlsbad Chamber’s name. In the latest case, we had the Linkedin group dissolved and a new group, “Carlsbad Chamber of...
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