We all know that an intellectual property infringement is a violation of an intellectual property right. There are different types of intellectual property rights and these are copyrights, patents, and trademarks. `It is illegal to use the name of any company or brand without their permission and copyright laws are there if you want to use the name of someone's company and take their copyright. These laws and rules must follow to start a business with someone already existing brand name.
Patent laws are there which are made to use someone ideas or inventions in a legal way. New inventions and ideas can match with some old ideas. Patent laws are best to give a temporary monopoly to the inventor to make and sell his invention. The patent period is limited but it protects others from making, using, selling, or importing the product. It is used as a license that can be sold, assigned, or transferred.
Trademark laws are there which are intended to let buyers know about their buying product. A trademark is a symbol or name which defines a product that belongs to a specific company and that symbol is legally registered to that company so that only that company can use it.
Whenever you plan to market an invention, first you should take complete knowledge about the process and get a provisional patent to start that process legally. It is very essential to hire a professional patent attorney to research the proposed patent and make the drawings that are required for this.
Conclusion
If you are looking for hiring a lawyer, make sure you ask them enough questions on patent laws. Try to verify and find references of their track record and past success rate on cases. Also if they have clients that were accused of infringement. Nowadays everything can be found online.
