Below, CNBC Select explains the differences between trademarks, copyrights and patents. Read on for more information and to ...

Applying for a patent or trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) comes with an unexpected risk —your mailing and email addresses become part of the public record.

Trademarks and patents are tools of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that help inventors legally establish, protect and defend the products they make. A trademark is a phrase, word, design or ...

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In accordance with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act"), the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") has announced extensions of the time allowed to file ...

A recipe patent and trademark do two different things in the business world. Each provides legal protection for a different aspect of a company's products and name, however one cannot substitute for ...

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“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Legend has it that U.S. Patent Commissioner Charles Duell wrote that in a letter to President William McKinley in 1899. Conventional wisdom also ...

The mania over people paying to own one-of-a kind, cartoonish characters or short video clips stored in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, is over — but the legal questions around ownership is heating up.

Nabisco’s Nilla Wafers have been a reliable staple in cookie jars since 1898, but the brand name is only 58 years old. In 1967, Nabisco rebranded the product from Vanilla Wafers to Nilla Wafers.