Gerald R. Prettyman, Patent Attorney

Gerald R. Prettyman has written 100’s of patent applications and secured many patents for his clients as well as many trademark registrations. Call 925-600-7342 for your patent, trademark or copyright

Don't get scammed on trademark renewals and 'registrations'! Companies read trademark applications and registrations and then send over-inflated if not fraudulent offers, many disguised as a 'warning." Some offers are to handle pay renewal fees for many times the actual fee while others offer to ...

Can I register my Logo? To register a logo-like work for copyright, the Copyright Office requires the logo to have creative non-text elements that dominate. If your logo is primarily standard text or simple elements such as lines, stripes, etc., the Copyright Office will not register them. Shown ...

A Patent is a trade-off. In return for the inventor having a monopoly for making, using, offer to sell and selling the invention, the patent application must describe the invention so that (1) the Patent Examiner will sufficiently understand the invention to determine whether the described invent...

Claims are construed based on a broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent. Owens Corning v. Fast Felt

A computer user does not 'use ' a back-end program (e.g., an “authenticating device”). Intell. Ventures I v Motorola Mobility (Fed. Cir.)

Seven Reasons to File a Patent Application
(1) U.S. and international law require you file a patent application before disclosing the invention to the public or selling or offering to sell the invention. If you disclose the invention to the public or sell or offer to sell the invention you forfei...