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Patent Marking Has Gone Virtual – Or Has It?

By Bob Gunderman and John Hammond on April 16, 2019

Blockchain – The Inventive Foundation of Bitcoin

By Bob Gunderman and John Hammond on November 3, 2018

Some Things You Didn’t Know You Needed – From the IoT

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on August 18, 2018

Scanning the Horizon – The Setup and Use of a Patent Alert Service

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on January 1, 2018

Swimming with the (Duly Diligent) Sharks

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Crowdsourcing of Prior Art – A New Road to Patent Quality?

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on July 8, 2015

That Which Is Known – “Prior Art” is one of the most important concepts in any statute-based system of granting a patent to an applicant.  Stated succinctly, “prior art” is “that which […]

Patents Rights – Avoiding a Collision with the Social Media Iceberg

By Bob Gunderman and John Hammond on July 1, 2015

Social Media and Intellectual Property – The Iceberg and More – As our world becomes ever more connected, and opinions, ideas, and thoughts are exchanged freely through the rapidly increasing use of […]

Appeals Beyond the USPTO – the “End of the Line” in Patent Prosecution

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on June 24, 2015

Patent Prosecution and Appeal – a Review – As our regular readers may recall, several of our past columns have covered patent prosecution(1) and appeal(2) in the United States Patent and Trademark […]

Appeals in Patent Prosecution – Another Way to Cut the Deck

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on June 17, 2015

Reaching the Appeal Decision Point – As regular readers of this column know, after a patent application is filed, a series of proceedings known as prosecution (1) occurs between the Applicant (typically represented by […]

“This action is FINAL.” Or Not – “FINAL” Rejection Doesn’t Mean Final

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on June 10, 2015

Forewarned by Four Words – It’s been about four months since your patent practitioner worked with you to file an Amendment in response to an Office Action received from the USPTO in […]

Building The Case For Patentability: Prosecution in the USPTO

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on June 3, 2015

The Arcane World of Prosecution – Most engineers and scientists who have had some exposure to patents know that a substantial effort is required to file a patent application in the U.S. […]

Patentability and the “Long-Felt Unmet Need” – The Christmas Tree Stand as a Case Study

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on May 27, 2015

The Law, Statistics, and Anecdotes – One of the key laws for patentability of an invention is that the invention must be unobvious1.  In making a determination with respect to obviousness, certain […]

Patent Models – A Blast from the Past

By Bob Gunderman and John Hammond on May 20, 2015

Where did The Limited Monopoly® come from anyhow? Back in 2005, friends from the Rochester Engineering Society heard that we had set off on our own and asked us to write a […]

The Duty of Candor in Proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on May 20, 2015

Basic Principles – The prosecution of a patent application in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an ex parte proceeding.  This means that with few exceptions, the process of examination of […]

Inventorship: Who Thunk Of It?

By John Hammond and Bob Gunderman on May 13, 2015

The Law – The United States is unique in the industrialized world in that an inventor must be named as the applicant for a patent, rather than his employer.  Federal statute 35 […]

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Patenting Holes – And the Story of an Early Marketing Scheme

The Patent Landscape of Bitcoin and its Crypto-Brethren

This Christmas, Give…Bitcoin?

Patent Fundamentals »

Patent Marking Has Gone Virtual – Or Has It?

Scanning the Horizon – The Setup and Use of a Patent Alert Service

Patent Agent – Client Privilege as real as Attorney – Client Privilege

America Invents Act (AIA) »

Inter Partes Review – Sovereign Immunity and the Oil States Storm in the Supreme Court

…And Last But Not Least – The New “First to File” Statute Under the AIA

The Prioritized Examination Option Under the AIA

Innovation »

A Christmas (W)rap

Blockchain – The Inventive Foundation of Bitcoin

Some Things You Didn’t Know You Needed – From the IoT

Patent Reform »

The America Invents Act – Best Mode Requirement

The America Invents Act – What’s New in False Patent Marking Laws

The Gears of Government- How New Laws Are Implemented in Our Patent System

Patent Prosecution »

Building The Case For Patentability: Prosecution in the USPTO

ROBERT D. GUNDERMAN P.E.

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...]

JOHN M HAMMOND P.E.

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 [...}

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