Sentences with phrase «trademark laws guard»

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Trademarks, patents and other intellectual property are fiercely guarded by their owners, who will usually sue to either get a cut of any profit by way of licence or to prevent its use all together,» says Donald Ramsbottom, a solicitor in Portsmouth who specialises in Internet law.

An earlier version of the bill contained a provision that would let companies challenge suspicious «business method» patents — many of which cover basic software practices — at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but a powerful lobby of old - guard firms (notably Microsoft (s msft) and IBM (s ibm)-RRB- lobbied to crush that part of the law.