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 […]
The Law – Our U.S. Constitution provides that inventors shall have “the exclusive right to their discoveries.” Accordingly, Federal statute 35 USC 111 states that, “An application for patent shall be made, […]
A Good Habit to Get Into – In the United States, a limited monopoly in the form of a patent may be granted to the first to invent, rather than the first […]
From the Blogosphere… “No, the only way to protect IP is to never tell anyone about it.” This was one of many answers offered in reply to a question posted on the […]
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 [...}
