Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Hawaii
patent protection
What protection do you recieve when a product patent is recieved. Dose it protect the product only or is the idea protected also.
Asked on 6/09/00, 4:14 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Daniel Press
Chung & Press, P.C.
Re: patent protection
What is protected is not your "product" per se, but what is claimed in the patent. Generally speaking, if what someone else does is within the scope of the claims of the patent, it infringes.
Answered on 7/30/00, 11:16 pm