| First Time Home Buyer - Mortgage Loans and Lenders |
| Are you a first time home buyer looking for additional information? This article discuss the various steps you must take in order to move into the home of your dreams, including understanding home ownership, getting approved for a loan, direct mortgage lenders, and finding a realtor. | | 3/7/2013 1:49:06 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
| Securing Home Loan Mortgages With Bad Credit: The Secret Made Easy |
| Mortgage providers may be cautious when lending to bad credit borrowers, but getting a home loan mortgage with bad credit is definitely possible - especially when some key qualifying factors are considered in advance. Keep reading for more information. | | 2/27/2013 3:39:22 PM |
|
| Who to Contact for Mortgage Help |
| Navigating the mortgage landscape is a complex venture, and when you are already stressed out by work, family, finances, and mortgage concerns, it can seem like a huge ordeal. Although this burden can be enough for some to give up their ventures altogether, you should not give up just because it's a little complicated. There are plenty of experts w... | | 2/27/2013 11:58:32 AM |
|
| Mortgage Loan Modifications - Some Banks Are Not An Interested Party To Your Mortgage |
| Mortgage Loan Modifications may be illegal, because the bank servicer or Trustee does not have the authority to give a mortgage loan modification as third party debt collectors. Mortgage loan modification refers to the changes that are made to the terms and conditions of the mortgage loan, outside the original note and mortgage contract terms that ... | | 2/25/2013 2:37:30 PM |
|
| Mortgages In The Current Economic Climate |
| It can't be denied - we're all up the creek without a paddle and we're all in the same boat. Economies around the world are suffering from the collapses of banks and businesses that the last 5 years has ushered in. There were some early warning signs - but it was a sudden shock to the masses. | | 2/25/2013 12:02:26 PM |
|
| Just How Consumers Will Know If They Are Victim of Mis-sold Mortgages? |
| There are conditions when home owners enter into a tight predicament where their residence will get to the edge of getting repossessed. Relatively it has accrued arrears that make it hard for the buyer to settle. Having said that, they may also be one of several victims of mis-sold mortgages by their particular broker that's the reason they came to... | | 2/24/2013 5:04:54 PM |
|
|
|
|
|
| Reminder: TARR and TDR are about to go offline; API |
| Per the notice at the top of TDR: On August 25, 2012, the USPTO released version 2.0 of Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR). On September 1st, all existing direct (static) hyper-links displaying TARR information will be redirected to TSDR. On September 8th, all existing direct (static) hyper-links displaying TDR information will be redir... | | 8/30/2012 10:50:15 AM |
|
|
|
| Another upcoming seminar |
| Ron Slusky is again offering his two-day, CLE-accredited Invention Analysis and Claiming Seminar in Chicago on May 21-22, 2012. The seminar is based on his ABA-published book Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer’s Guide. More information: www.sluskyseminars.com | | 3/30/2012 11:13:43 AM |
|
| Patent Ethics MCLE on “Ethics issues with US patent and PCT powers of attorney” |
| Via Carl Oppedahl: Need a few ethics CLE credits? Tired of having to get your ethics CLE credits by listening to or attending programs on subjects that have nothing to do with what you actually do for a living, which is intellectual property law? Well, here is one ethics CLE credit that relates to patents. Using Windows Calculator with dates |
| How in the world did I not know this? If you have the Windows Calculator program running [in Windows Vista, 7 or later], and press “Control +E,” it gives you the ability to calculate the difference between two dates. [Via: Reddit] Updated 2012-03-14 to add information re versions of Windows, and to add a second Trademark Solicitations |
| Another day at work is over…another handful of client questions about solicitations they received via e-mail or postal mail regarding trademark related services offered for sale. I tell them the same thing I always do…send me a copy and I’ll glance at it for you, but the chances are that it is either an outright USPTO Webinar on the America Invents Act |
| Via http://www.uspto.gov/news/webinar.jsp: USPTO Director David Kappos and other members of the USPTO’s senior leadership team invite you to join them online for a live webinar examining implementation of the America Invents Act and the proposed USPTO patent fees announced earlier this month. The program will be held on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 f... | | 2/17/2012 10:19:38 AM |
|
| Proposed USPTO Fee Increases |
| Have you looked over the USPTO’s proposed fee increases yet (which were submitted in accordance with the Leahy‐Smith America Invents Act)? Wow. Check out these changes: Design patent application filing/examination/search fees increase from $530 to $1180. RCE filing fee increasing from $930 to $1700. Total maintenance fees (combined 4, 8 and 1... | | 2/16/2012 5:01:57 PM |
|
| Training manual for new patent admin staff (and new associates) |
| A book I recently added to my “all patent practitioners should have” list is Susan Stiles’ “Patent Professional’s Handbook.” Stiles’ book is a complete instruction manual for new patent staff: explaining the entire patenting process and terminology, walking them through (step-by-step) how to file something ... | | 1/26/2012 5:17:08 PM |
|
| USPTO E-Mail and Your Spam Folder |
| All practitioners should add commonly used USPTO email addresses to their email client’s address book. Why? To decrease the chances that your email client will filter legitimate email (“ham”) into your junk (“spam”) folder. I started a list of such “commonly used” email addresses a few months ago. Thanks to... | | 1/25/2012 1:02:39 PM |
|