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Olive & Olive is hard at work…

We do realize that life and work are disrupted worldwide right now due to the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic.  But we’ve been around long enough to know that we can get through this together, and we will do so in partnership with our clients. Throughout the crisis and for as long […]

Patents

Patents are used to protect inventions, preventing the unauthorized use by others of an inventor’s discoveries. Although “mere ideas” are not patentable, patents come closer than any other form of intellectual property except trade secrecy to protecting ideas, because they can protect the essence of a product or manner of […]

Common Intellectual Property Abbreviations and Symbols

The meaning of abbreviations and symbols for Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Mask Works & Designs Abbreviation or Symbol Meaning Patent or Pat. Indicates an invention protected by an issued United States patent. A proper patent notice contains one of these listed terms, followed by the patent number. Sometimes the letters “U.S.” […]