What Is Required in the Specification of My Patent Application?

If you’re trying to write a patent application on your own,please take caution – it has been my experience that almost all of the inventors who attempt to prepare and file their own application end up never obtaining any patent rights and inadvertently forfeiting their invention to the public domain.  Use this guide as an outline of…

Design Patents and Trademarks for Product Designs

Let’s say you came up with a novel design for a boombox or a watch.  Although this newly designed boombox or watch may be ‘inventive’ from the utilitarian standpoint, a utility patent may not protect the physical design of your product as it would protect the corresponding function.  This article considers protecting product designs that may be functional, but…

Who Should I Assign My Patent Rights To?

In order to transfer patent rights from an inventor (Assignor) to an entity (Assignee), the inventor must sign an assignment agreement. Upon execution, the assignment agreement become a legally binding and enforceable contract. With the assignment, each inventor transfers the patent rights embodied in the patent or patent application to the Assignee. In turn,the Assignee…

Difference Between Patentability Search Opinion and a Non-Infringement Opinion

Choosing Between A Patentability Search Opinion and Non-Infringment Opinion I.  What Is The Difference Between Patentability Search, Opinion, And A Non-Infringement Opinion? In a Patentability Opinion, a patent attorney provides his professional opinion as to whether your invention is Patentable. He will commission a search of patents and publications disclosed throughout the world and determine whether,…

Patent on Newly Discovered Material

How would an entrepreneur go about patenting a newly discovered material? Say if they were to discover a room temperature superconductor, a discovery that would affect life as we know it. The first question you must ask is whether this superconductor exists in nature, or whether you had to create a special environment to foster its existence….

Intangible Assets

Don’t Wait, Protect The Intangible Assets In Your IP Portfolio Now Worldwide, the total asset value of patents (just one type of intellectual asset) is estimated at $1 trillion. Intellectual asset licensing revenues in the United States alone increased from $15 billion in 1990 to $110 billion in 2000, and is expected to be $500…

How to Reduce Patent Fees by 75%

The newly enacted Patent Laws make patents more important to obtain and more enforceable to carry. Best of all, in the midst of big corporate world’s patent cold war, the new Patent Laws open a door to let startups and early-stage companies join the battlefield on even ground.  Here’s how. The America-Invents-Act (AIA) created a first-to-file standard…

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