How Not to Write a Patent


The Patent and Trademark Office will not be requiring handwritten signatures during COVID-19 outbreak. Correspondence with the Patent Office requires a signature of some form. Generally, an electronic or S-signature is sufficient to submit a document to the Patent and…
Inventors and attorneys rushed to file patent applications before March 16, 2013. That date marked an important change in patent law, with applications filed before being subject to the old patent law, and applications filed after being subject to the…
Applications of open-source theories of cooperation and development are popping up all over the place. In veiled product R&D, Coca Cola now offers a self-serve soda fountain – the Freestyle – where users can mix hundreds of different flavors to…
It is a rule we all learned in school: don’t procrastinate, don’t wait until the last minute. It is one I adhere to in my practice. There are enough complexities in the practice of patent law – adding poor timing…
The Patent Office suffered a catastrophic power shutdown the week of Christmas 2015.
The US has been operating under the full enacted provisions of the America Invents Act for over six months now, and some of the questions presented by the new law have been answered. However, one area of uncertainty – troubling…