The Concept… The concept of a “royalty” as an economic construction has a long history. Not surprisingly, the concept relates to the use of the word to describe ancestry – “royal lineage” […]
The term “patent landscape” is widely used to denote the state of patent activities in a given field of technology, or with regard to a more narrow class of inventions. An […]
Instant Prototyping Gratification – We live in remarkable times with respect to developing and bringing new inventions to market. Advances in rapid prototyping technology in the past decade have compressed the development […]
The Basic Tool – If you have filed a patent application in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the application is currently pending, the filing of a continuation application can […]
A Healthy Paranoia – Protection of intellectual property can be a critical task for an enterprise. This is often the case from the earliest gestation of a business when a new invention […]
Freeing Up Value or Locking Up Your Assets? Security Agreements and Assignments – A patent is owned by the inventor(s), absent an agreement to the contrary. This is a fundamental principle of […]
Yes, If You Can Make a Business Case For One. Misfit Toys and Misfit Patents In this column, our third in a series of business related patent topics, we address the question, […]
Why a Patent Strategy? A patent is a legal instrument that allows you to exclude others from making, using, or selling your patented invention. A patent is a limited monopoly, limited to […]
A Spectrum of Subject Matter – Many engineers and scientists are aware of the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, http://patft.uspto.gov/, that is available for online searching of patents and published […]
Mr. Gunderman has 30+ years of engineering related work experience, and is the President of Patent Technologies, LLC, a patent law firm with headquarters in the Lennox Tech [more...]
Mr. Hammond is a licensed Patent Agent, the President of Patent Innovations LLC and a licensed Professional Engineer. He has 23 years of work experience in product design [...}
