Your Invention in Words – A patent application is, simply put, your invention in words. While the patent application describes your invention in detail, it should also describe what makes your invention […]
Simple in a Complex World – Today’s world is anything but simple, and there seems to be a bias against anything that hints of simplicity, as if anything simple is synonymous with […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
PART I Very few topics in the field of patent law are as misunderstood and mysterious as “claims,” the language at the end of a patent or patent application that appears to […]
On June 8, 1995, the United States Patent and Trademark Office introduced the “provisional application for patent” to inventors. The premise was to encourage small businesses and independent inventors to protect their […]
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 […]
Placing Your John Hancock on the Paper or Rearranging Those Electrons – While penning a large and flamboyant signature on a parchment as important as the Declaration of Independence may not be […]
Patent-eligible Subject Matter – The patentability of inventions is defined in the United States by federal statute 35 U.S.C. §101 that states “Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, […]
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 [...}
