On April 19, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a memorandum informing the Examining Corps of recent...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently reached a monumental milestone, issuing U.S. Patent No. 10,000,000 on June 19th,...

What Are Third Party Pre-Issuance Submissions? Since the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted on September 16, 2011, there...

Despite numerous setbacks and delays - most recently a June 2017 decision by the German Constitutional Court that prevents Germany from...

On Monday May 22, 2017, the United States Supreme Court decided TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC. Justice Thomas wrote...

The Hague Agreement is an international registration system that allows the possibility of obtaining protection for up to 100 industrial...

Part of my position as an international paralegal is handling the recordation of ownership changes in various countries. This can be...

Under the U.S. patent rules provided in Title 37 - Code of Federal Regulations Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights, Section 1.102 (also...

Most of the general public is now familiar with the TM and ® symbols used in trademark talk. The TM symbol is generally used after a...

So your U.S. patent application got rejected, but when you read the Office Action you found a section titled "Allowable Subject Matter." ...

Applicants and inventors work so diligently to put together the material and components of a patent application, that I often find it...

The podcasting bridge has one less troll thanks to a patent challenge from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). In April, the U.S....

While we may never know what came first- the chicken or the egg, we now know the answer to the other question that has plagued mankind...

A nonprovisional application for a U.S. patent is made to the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office and includes: (1)...

You’ve filed for patent protection in the U.S. and are now considering filing internationally. You decide that you only need protection...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently reached a milestone: they issued United States Patent No. 9,000,000 on April 7,...

I. INTRODUCTION Access to affordable generic drugs is central among issues of debate concerning healthcare access and affordability....

As I discussed in a previous entry, nonprovisional U.S. patent applications are assigned to a Technology Center1 having the classes of...

You have a great idea, and you want to share it with your boss, your coworkers, your spouse, your patent attorney, potential investors,...

One hundred years from now, each nineteenth day of June, grandfathers may tell their grandchildren (or whatever cyborg abominations pass...