The law firm of Eamonn Trainor, Patent Attorney, Albany, New York will work to ensure that inventors retain the intellectual property rights to their ideas and inventions so that they can benefit from their inspiration and hard work. We specialize in patent and trademark prosecution, intellectual property licensing and copyright law.
Innovation and invention improves all of our lives. Our society has progressed enormously through the introduction of new ideas, technological innovations and scientific inquiry. A vital element in this progress is the protection of these new ideas and inventions through our patent system. Having the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention that you created for a period up to 20 years (14 years for a Design Patent) is crucial to a successful launch of your invention as a product into the marketplace.
Similarly, if you have a name, phrase, symbol, design, logo, slogan, even sound, that you use to identify your goods, products or services in the marketplace, it is important that you apply for a Trademark in order to protect those identifying attributes from use by your competitors.
Copyright protects the form of expression of a work created by a writer, a musician or software developer. However, copyright does not protect the ideas underlining the expression of those ideas. Generally, copyright protection will be in effect for the life of the person who created the work plus an additional 70 years.