Encountering Numbers on Patents and Published Applications – As engineers and scientists, we often find ourselves conducting technical research for a variety of reasons, such as to learn about a subject that […]
Protest – A little known, little used process in our U.S. patent system
A Protest is the filing of papers with the United States Patent and Trademark Office against a pending patent application that calls attention to any facts within the protestor’s knowledge which, in […]
21st Century Patent Preparation: The Model for the Future
What’s New – Within the past few years, explosive advances in computer hardware and software have made it affordable for large and small businesses, and even solo practitioners to use electronic modeling […]
Diligence in Establishing “Common Ownership” and Joint Research Agreements
A Brief Prosecution Primer – Regular readers of this column may recall a basic premise of patent prosecution(1): after some initial administrative steps, a Patent Examiner in the USPTO studies the Applicant’s […]
Google Patents – A One Stop Shop for Patent Research
Old School Patent Searching – In years past, when clients have had an interest in doing some initial patent searching on their own, we have referred them to the United States Patent […]