GENERAL INFORMATION
Welcome to the Home Page of Applied Patents and Trademarks [APT] . You are here because you may have an idea and are looking for information about how to protect it. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are your best tools. The approach you take for protection will depend directly on your current circumstances, your goals, and your operations. There are no fast and easy answers and no web-site can give you all the answers you need. It is important that you consult with an intellectual property specialist to get the answers you will need, whether it be here at Applied Patents and Trademarks [APT] or another firm or patent lawyer.
Intellectual property is a valuable commodity in the business and professional field. It consists primarily of:
1. Patents. A patent is the protection of an invention and can be, and often is, used to prevent others from making, using, selling, or offering to sell the patented invention without the owner's permission in the country in which patented. Ideas by themselves are not patentable.
2. Trademarks. A trademark basically is the "identity" of a product or a service and, if Federally registered, prevents others from using a confusingly similar trademark for similar goods or services.
3. Copyrights. Protection of how ideas are expressed.
4. Trade Secrets. Keeping a product, process, ingredient, part, and the like, secret with limited access to key employees.
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1. Patents. A patent is the protection of an invention and can be, and often is, used to prevent others from making, using, selling, or offering to sell the patented invention without the owner's permission in the country in which patented. Ideas by themselves are not patentable.
2. Trademarks. A trademark basically is the "identity" of a product or a service and, if Federally registered, prevents others from using a confusingly similar trademark for similar goods or services.
3. Copyrights. Protection of how ideas are expressed.
4. Trade Secrets. Keeping a product, process, ingredient, part, and the like, secret with limited access to key employees.
Send an email to APT