DALLAS, TX – Created to meet the educational needs of a highly technical Intellectual Property industry, Dallas/Fort Worth based IPParalegals has publicly released its IPconnect blog site.

IPconnect discloses the myriad process techniques and best practices that facilitate patent, trademark and copyright prosecution worldwide. But getting the word out is merely where it begins. While most blogs are designed to publish journals or commentary, IPconnect will focus more on being an interactive classroom.

“Following months of testing we are pretty excited to have IPconnect finally make its public debut” announced Viola Ange, IPParalegals founder and the driving force behind IPconnect.

Intellectual Property is a wonderful field, full of discovery and change. It is what drives the world’s commerce… the guiding force behind nearly everything with a price tag. IP is a term that refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.

IP is divided into two categories:

1) Industrial property: including inventions (patents), brands (trademarks), industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and

2) Copyright: which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.

One of the popular misconceptions that I run into when I train people, is the belief that the assignment from a parent application does not need to be filed against its child continuation or divisional applications.The problem here is that there is a disconnect between the words “owner” and “title.” The word “owner” refers to a legal right of possession and the word “title” refers to the instrument that constitutes the evidence of such legal right, which is located in the ownership registry of the applicable jurisdiction in which the patent is registered.