Patents and Patent Law

The answer is to apply for a patent for that idea. It has to be researched thoroughly first by the patent office before the application can be approved. There is a fee involved for this. See the related link for more information on how to get started. Good luck!

Ford does not own Cummins or Cummins "patents". If they were Cummins patents they would belong to Cummins. Cummins may well license patents from Ford, cross-licensing is common in industry, and there would be nothing unusual in that. Ford did own some Cummins stock in the past, but Cummins is an independent company with plants all over the world. This is a rumor that has circulated for years, partly because of an old internet hoax. Ford does use a Cummins in one of their heavy duty trucks, I believe, but their main source of heavy duty diesels is International.

Value of any gun is based on exact make, model, and condition. For an antique firearm, you will need a hands on appraisal.

Yes, since such circuit is entirely of your own and technically innovative.

You can delete the update manually by browsing to the 'Company' folder then 'Updates' folder. Inside that you will find the SR3 update executable. Delete it.

I think that you mean "pistol" instead of "positive". I have one of these and it is indeed a pistol. Was that the question?

"Police Positive" was a Colt trade name. If the revolver has a square grip it is probably the model known as the "new police" and if it has a rounded grip it is probably the model known as the civilian "new pocket". It's hard to believe but the little dinky .32 revolvers were the standard Police issue around the turn of the 20th century.

TRIPS agreement (applies to drugs after 1989) gives 20 year protection. Prior to that it was 16 years.

In many jurisdictions, pharmaceutical patents are elegible for patent term extension. For example, in USA, a patentee can get an extension of up to 5 years for a specific product o process (not the full scope of a claim) beyond the 20 year term for an FDA approved product. Variations on such extensions exist in many but not all jurisdictions.

Mark Dean's patents are for his computer program bus and other things.

It supposed to expire after 40 days but it never does end!

Supporting catilaginous rings keep it open.

Neither, probably.

Copyright is completely inapplicable in this case. You could copyright any distinctive text on the bottle (provided it were long enough... for example, the text on Rolling Rock beer bottles is probably copyrightable, but you can't copyright a short phrase, like a name). but you can't copyright a physical substance like the energy drink itself.

Patent is probably also inapplicable. In order for it to be patentable, you would have to demonstrate that it is a new idea, one that isn't obvious from "prior art". Since there are plenty of energy drinks around already, this is going to be essentially impossible.

What you've got left is trademark protection. You can trademark the name of the product, the logo, and possibly the design of the bottle, if it's distinctive enough (the shape of the Coca-Cola "hobble skirt" bottles was trademarked for many years; I'm not sure if it still is or not).

Trademark protection is complicated enough you should hire an attorney to do it. Any bozo can handle copyright registration, but trademarks are a different story.

That's not a model number, might be a serial number or patent number. There were over twenty different Marlin slide-action shotguns and most are very similar to each other. Would have to know all of the markings on the gun, plus see some digital pictures to properly identify it. Some of these guns (particularly the Model 19) are unsafe to shoot with modern ammunition. sales@countrygunsmith.net

There were approximately 50,000 patents granted per year over this time period. For a total of 450,000.

It is unrealistic to have itemised them all here.

There are literally thousands of patents for the iPhone. Apple have patented every element of the iPhone from the screen, shape, electrics, display, icons and more.

Abraham Lincoln became the first US President to hold a patent for an invention. He was awarded a patent in 1849 for devising a set of bellows located in a ships hold to be deployed in order to lift the ship over shoals and other obstructions in river beds. This would enable new and larger cargo vessels to navigate further upstream than previously they never could. This would help the trade of small towns faraway up river. Lincoln actually built a model of this to obtain the patent, however, he could not raise the money for a prototype.

Yes, patent boots contain what is known as patent leather, which is real leather, but it has been given a glossy sheen that allows the boots to shine and look good.

One can perform a US Trademark search on several different websites. These include: the United States Patent and Trademark Office online website and Marcaria.

Depends upon whether it is a utility patent or a design patent, when it was filed and when it was issued, and the relevant prior art.

A utility patent for a triangular peg game would most likely be unenforceable as such puzzles have been out there for hundreds of years. There are specific articles about how to solve such puzzles in the mathematical press since the 1960s. A US utility patent from the 1960s, if valid, would have expired 17 years after being issued.

There have been peg puzzle patents in the USA since at least 1891, e.g., USP 462,170, the "Smith puzzle" and 484,882, the "Rickert puzzle".

The patent for veg-o-matic expired a long time ago, assuming it ever had one, and the trademark would only last as long as the owners continued to use it on products. US patents in the 1960s expired 17 years after being issued.

Bar codes have improved society by making it easier for items that you're buying to be identified, stored, and bought.

Patent 2,094,577 issued on 14 July 1942 to Nicholas L. Brewer for "A Feed Mechanism for Firearms". Independent claim 1 (of 5 claims) is included below:

1. A feed mechanism for a repeating firearm of the type having a reciprocating breech member comprising a cartridge elevator having an apertured pivotally mounted C-shaped body with its opening in its forward side, said body having an upwardly projecting operating lug by means of which the body is adapted to be given a partial rotation by the rearward movement of the breech member, and a spring arm having an eye housed within the aperture of said body and mounted on the pivot carrying said body, said spring arm projecting forwardly out through the outlet opening of the body and adapted to receive thereabove a cartridge, said spring arm yielding when the body is moved so that the cartridge is started gently.

No, an inventor would typically file a provisional application at some time prior to filing the non-provisional and then cite the provisional and incorporate it by reference, to obtain the benefit of the earlier filing date and all that is disclosed in the provisional.

You can file any number of provisional applications then one or more non-provisional applications citing one or more of the provisionals when you're ready.

Yes, but as soon as the patent is granted, you can no longer use the idea.

Searching the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, I found three patents related to Vocaloid. The earliest patent was filed in February of 2005.