Ash Tankha

Why individuals and businesses are increasingly opting for a trademark ? Trademarks bestow two main rights on the owner - the right to register the mark and the right to use the mark. The party that registers the mark first or uses the mark in commerce first has the right to use of that mark. However, the U.S.PTO's authority is limited to only marks that have been registered.

I have thought through and worked out the innovative concept in my mind. Can I patent it at this stage?” The inventor is typically in a dilemma as to when he/she should proceed to start the patenting process.

A family of materials with an ability to change few of its original properties by the application of any external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric and magnetic fields are called Smart Materials. Smart materials find a wide range of application areas due to their varied response to external stimuli.

In recent years, there has been an extensive boost in technological concepts related to electronics and electrical domain. Electronics and semiconductor engineering is one of the largest and fastest growing industries. This growth has entailed a wide range of patent filing, all through.

A definition of software patent is hard and one may not find the definition on any patent office website. Software patents have a very recent history as the first software patent granted was in 1981.

Mechanical engineering perhaps has the oldest known inventions and patents.Mechanical inventions have no constraints as they range from a simple yet effective patented invention of a four year old from Texas for “An aid for grasping round knobs” to researched and focused inventions in all areas of mechanical expertise.