Owning a patent is much like owning property. Just as you can sell or lease your property, you could do the same with your patent with assignment or license, respectively. Patent assignment is an inventor’s granting of all of his patent rights (or future patent rights) to another person or entity. In contrast, a license…
Please submit the contact information of the individual who is designated as the contact point for: 1.The Patent Attorney Consultation that will follow your submission, 2.The Staff Attorneys and Customer Service Representatives, and 3.All correspondence from the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding the Provisional Patent. If you are interested in more detail related…
Each inventor has the full spectrum of patent rights to his/her claimed invention. This means that each inventor can separately assign and license the patent without the other’s permission. However, each inventor must account for and share all the profits he has earned from the license of a patent with the other inventors. When multiple…
A Patentability Opinion provides you a Patent Attorney’s professional determination of the likelihood your idea, invention, or invention will be granted patent. The Patent Attorney first performs a Patent Search and then applies legal standards and case law for Patentability to determine if your innovation may be patentable in view of the patent search results….
Most of us like to feel that we were the first to have conceived of our great idea. Before investing the time and resources into applying for a formal, non-provisional patent, it is good to know if there are any other patents or publications disclosing something similar to your idea. Ultimately, this information will help…
Intellectual Property: What is Patent Search? A Patent Search is a search of the United States Patents and Publications (USPP) database to see if there are any Patents or Patents Pending disclosing something similar to your invention. There are two types of searches; keyword searches and a class/art unit search done within the USPP Database….
Code section 35 U.S.C. 112, known as the Enablement Requirement, reads: The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with…
Any person who has invented or discovered a new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter may obtain a patent for it. This also includes any new or useful improvement on a past invention. Laws of nature and theories are not patentable. This requirement is outlined in title 35 of the…
In order for an invention to be granted a patent, an inventor must disclose and claim his invention in a patent application filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Properly describing and claiming an invention in a patent application is a highly technical legal practice with a vast amount of formalities and…
As you may know, our patent laws changed last year – the law now gives patent priority to the first person to file a patent application on an idea. Before, the law allowed inventors to prove the earliest date that they conceived an idea (in this way, even if the inventor wasn’t the first to…
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