PALM SPRINGS PATENT ATTORNEYS, PALM DESERT TRADEMARK LAWYERS, NEWPORT BEACH PATENT ATTORNEY, ANAHEIM TRADEMARK LAWYER, IRVINE COPYRIGHT ATTORNEYS, CARLSBAD TRADEMARK LAWYER, INDIAN WELLS COPYRIGHT ATTORNEYS, LAGUNA BEACH TRADEMARK LAWYER

California Intellectual Property Licensing Law Firm of Attorney R. Sebastian Gibson, Palm Springs Patent Lawyers, Palm Desert Trademark Attorneys, Indian Wells Copyright Lawyers

Serving Palm Springs, Palm Desert Area, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Carlsbad, Newport Beach, San Diego, Huntington Beach, Orange County, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, the Central Coast, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Temecula, San Bernardino & Santa Barbara from our law offices in Rancho Mirage, CA

At the Law Firm of R. Sebastian Gibson we have the trademark, copyright, patent and licensing experience to be your Palm Desert Trademark Lawyer, Palm Springs Copyright Attorney, Indian Wells Copyright Lawyer, San Diego Trademark Lawyer, Orange County Trademark Attorneys, Newport Beach Trademark Lawyers, Irvine Patent attorney, Laguna Beach copyright lawyer, La Jolla intellectual property attorneys, Del Mar trademark lawyer, Temecula copyright attorneys, Rancho Cucamonga patent lawyer, Ontario trademark attorneys, and California intellectual property attorneys. The Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson have extensive experience in representing patent and intellectually property clients in Southern California in connection with protecting and licensing their patent, trademark, copyright and intellectual property rights.

The California Intellectual Property Law Firm of Sebastian Gibson provides the following advice regarding Patents and Intellectual Property:

The Patent and Trademark Office grants patents which are a property right to an inventor. To be patentable, an invention must be novel and non-obvious. What a person cannot patent is a perpetual motion device, abstract idea, a law of nature or any naturally occurring substance or any invention publicly disclosed more than 12 months ago.

A utility patent protects the functionality of an invention. It is granted for any new, useful and non-obvious process, machine, manufactured article, composition of matter, and to new and useful improvements of inventions. A utility patent is good for 20 years from the date of filing, and our law firm's attorneys can assist you with this process.

A design patent protects the look of an item. It is granted to protect the overall appearance of an invention and is good for 14 years from the date of the issuance of the patent.

A plant patent is utilized to protect a new variety of plant. It is good for 20 years from the date of filing the application, optimally with our law firm's lawyers help.

While a patent granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office protects a patent within the U.S., its territories and possessions, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) allows a patent applicant to achieve protection of an invention in other Asian and European countries who are signatories of the PCT.

You can rely on the Law Firm of R. Sebastian Gibson to be your Palm Desert Trademark Lawyer, Palm Springs Patent Attorney, Newport Beach copyright lawyers, Anaheim trademark attorneys, Irvine patent lawyer, Laguna Beach copyright attorney, La Jolla Patent lawyer, Carlsbad Trademark attorneys, Indian Wells Copyright Lawyer, San Diego Trademark Lawyer, Orange County Trademark Attorney, California patent attorneys, Intellectual Property Lawyers in California, Trademark Infringement Lawyer in CA, Patent lawyer in CA, California patent law firms, intellectual property attorneys in CA, intellectual property lawyer in Palm Springs, patent attorney in Palm Desert, copyright lawyers in Orange County, trademark lawyer in Anaheim, patent lawyers in Irvine, California intellectual property lawyers, CA patent licensing attorneys, CA patent application lawyer, and California copyright and trademark lawyer.

The statutory language used for patents by intellectual property licensing attorneys' states that the right conferred by the patent grant is "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the U.S. or 'importing' it into the U.S." The right granted therefore, and defined by intellectual property licensing lawyers, is the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention, not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import the invention.

Without a patent obtained by the inventor, with or without the help of attorneys, others can make, sell and import your invention, without your permission, and avoid paying you any compensation, royalties or license fees.

To properly apply for and protect your invention, it is advisable that a firm of attorneys first perform a patent search. The California patent lawyers utilized by our law firm from other law firms and our "Of Counsel" attorney can perform this search for you. If after performing this search, a patent attorney or lawyer feels your invention has a chance of receiving a patent, one of the law firm's intellectual property attorneys utilized by our law firm will then seek to protect your rights by means of the appropriate patent application based upon your budget and goals.

For those clients with a limited budget who wish to quickly protect their rights, a provisional patent application may be appropriate. Though the provisional patent will expire within one year if it is not upgraded to a utility patent, it will give the inventor a priority date while further resources can be gathered to seek additional protection.

Additionally, one of the California IP, intellectual property lawyers utilized by our Palm Springs desert area law firm from other law firms or our "Of Counsel" attorney (serving clients in Riverside, the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, the Central Coast & Santa Barbara from our law offices in Rancho Mirage, CA) can file a Document Disclosure to help prove that you are the originator of an idea on a certain date. However, the Document Disclosure will not give the inventor the priority date that a provisional patent does. The Document Disclosure must be properly filed with the USPTO and is good only if the inventor does not make any public disclosure of the invention.

After a intellectual property lawyer or attorney files a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, it is usual for at least one Office Action to be issued by the USPTO. That Office Action will commonly reject some of the claims of the patent application. It is necessary at that point to present arguments to the patent examiner why the invention is patentable based upon the differences between the invention and the prior art cited by the examiner. The expertise of an intellectual property attorney with patent experience can be invaluable in this area.

At the California Law Firm of Attorney R. Sebastian Gibson, the California intellectual property attorneys associated with the firm are involved in the licensing of patents and a patent lawyer from San Diego who is "Of Counsel" to the law firm prepares patent applications for provisional, utility and design patents. Our law firm's San Diego, CA intellectual property attorney who is "Of Counsel" to our law firm, can perform patent searches and respond to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Actions, and can additionally assist patent clients in finding manufacturing locations within the U.S. and abroad to produce their goods. For those clients not interested in actually producing their patented items, licensing lawyers such as Sebastian Gibson can assist them in licensing their patents to other manufacturers.

Let the California intellectual property attorneys and lawyers associated with our Palm Springs Desert Area law firm, serving Riverside, the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, the Central Coast & Santa Barbara from our law offices in Rancho Mirage, CA, protect and advise you with regard to your inventions and business methods you would like to patent and any other intellectual property developed by you before your ideas slip away.

Sebastian Gibson is neither admitted to practice before the patent bar as a patent attorney nor should anything be construed in this website to cause anyone to believe that Sebastian Gibson is either a patent expert or a patent specialist. Only attorneys admitted before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney may submit an application for a patent. The attorneys and lawyers utilized by the California law firm of Sebastian Gibson to apply for patents are admitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and are authorized to make such applications.