More than half of provisional patent applications are abandoned without ever reaching the non-provisional application stage. Thus, the protection last...
Should the USPTO create a small claims court for US patent holders?
The USPTO will evaluate in 2013 whether the US should develop a small claims proceeding for lower-value patent enforcement actions. In the US, all p...
Design patent or trade dress?
Deciding Between Design Patent and Trade Dress Design patents have a 14 year lifespan under patent law. Trade dress is a form of trademark protection ...
Patent Fee Changes – Timing can save you Money
If you qualify as a microentity, many people are advising that inventors may consider filing a provisional application before March 18 and delay your ...
Is business polluting R and D?
The Irish Times Science editor Dick Ahlstrom believes that the world may never see another scientific genius like Galeo, Einstein or Newton – people...
Stolen inventions: how to protect your invention from the Big Guy
Stolen inventions: how to protect your invention from the Big Guy There are always stories where the Big Box retailers misappropriate the innovative i...
Inventions needed in the medical device world
David Shaywitz, MD, writing for The Health Care Blog, expresses concern over what he sees as a major issue in the medical device world: the gap betwee...
Shareholder derivative suits increasingly prevalent
Since 2000, members of corporate Boards of Directors are increasingly being sued in shareholder derivative suits for claims related to mismanagement o...
New Year’s Resolution for your patent strategy: 5 steps to an effective defense for prior art rejections
March 2013 is just around the corner, and with it come the new patent laws initiated by the approval of the America Invents Act. This New Year’s, ma...
Trade Dress Series, Part 5: Ineffective trade dress claims
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the different methods for seeking protection on product designs, namely, trade dress, copyright, and design pat...