The patent attorney as your personal guide to the protection of intellectual property

The patent attorney as your personal guide to the protection of intellectual property

The patent attorney is your best assistant in protecting intellectual property

Starting a new company or developing new products costs a lot of money. Quite often, in order to save money, intellectual property, or creative property, is left unprotected or, in the best case, it is protected by its own efforts. Surely such protection of creative property is better than no protection at all. However, it contains risks that the use of a patent attorney helps to avoid.

The experts of the Patent Office are very nice and helpful people who are happy to help protect an invention, trademark or design solution. But they are civil servants who are based primarily on the requirements of the law, without thinking about how to achieve the best protection or how to exercise the rights arising from the protection later. This cannot be blamed on them, because when doing their work, they propose to improve one or another thing based on the law. The applicant agrees to the proposal and submits the protection documents, so the applicant is responsible for the protection received.

Some check questions before you start protecting your creative property yourself. Do you understand trademarks, do you want to protect a word mark or a figurative mark, or which part of the trademark is protected and which is not? Do you know exactly what is protected by the design solution? The design solution protects the external shape of the product, but do you also know that if the external shape of the product results from the product's technical solution, the design does not protect it, even if the design solution is registered? Can you read from the invention protection documents which features of the invention are protected and which are free for everyone to use? If you doubt your knowledge, it is wise to use the help of a patent attorney in protecting creative property.

In their long-term practice, patent attorneys have repeatedly seen situations where a person has successfully represented himself at the Patent Office and obtained protection for his trademark, design or invention. When exercising the rights arising from protection, it has become clear that the perception of the scope of protection and the actual scope of protection are very different. To avoid such disappointments, it is wise to use a patent attorney who has the knowledge and experience to guide you away from the rocks and ensure that what you want is protected. The patent attorney can explain what can and cannot be protected and why not. Feel free to contact the patent attorney even if you think that finances are not going to work out. Good patent attorneys can advise where to find money. Sometimes different funds offer money for more than just protecting creative property. If you want to know more about the protection of intellectual property, contact the patent attorney. We help you understand what rights you have and how to exercise them.