After 16 years of providing intellectual property legal services, the law firm Pravel Intellectual Property Law, P.C. has adopted a new brand, Intellalegal. The new brand is part of the new continually updated website and an expansion into the Texas market. Intellalegal is a federally registered trademark (3,544,675) and a DBA of the existing [...]

Patentability, Infringement and Validity Searches
Patent searches are conducted onsite at the US Patent and Trademark Office on the East Search System. The East Search System is the same system that is used by US Patent Examiners and includes a limited amount of foreign patents. We have been searching patents for over 20 years for purposes of determining patentability as [...]

Patent Applications
A patent is a grant that is issued by the United States Government that gives you the right to exclude all others from making, using or selling the claimed subject matter of your patent, or its equivalents. Before you decide to pursue your idea, you should be confident that a market exists for you new [...]

Patents
Background A patent is a grant that is issued by the United States Government that gives you the right to exclude all others from making, using or selling the claimed subject matter of your patent, or its equivalents. Before you decide to pursue your idea, you should be confident that a market exists for you [...]
USPTO Teams up With Google to Provide Free Patent Information
The United States and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced last week that it has entered into a no-cost, two-year agreement with Google to make bulk electronic patent and trademark public data available to the public in bulk form. Under this agreement, the USPTO is providing Google with existing bulk, electronic files, which Google will host without [...]
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Impact of US Supreme Court’s Prometheus Patentable Subject Matter Decision
May 18, 2012
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Amendments or Arguments after Final Rejection may be Accepted under new USPTO Pilot Program
May 9, 2012
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Digitization of Copyright entries Nearly Complete at US Library of Congress
May 2, 2012
- Sound Trademark Dispute: Ride the Ducks v. Bay Quackers August 26, 2009
- 274 green patents filed in second quarter August 27, 2009
- IBM Files US Patent for Facebook Remote Control September 1, 2009
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