USPTO Trading Cards
Just thing to get your kids excited about inventing – the USPTO has released a set of trading cards. I think? Features classic like George Washington Carver and Thomas Edison. They can be seen here.
I was attempting to file a provisional application today in the USPTO’s no-longer-new-but-still-quite-buggy Patent Center filing system. I am glad I not up against a deadline today. I logged in, and a “Search Limit Reached” error message immediately popped up,…
Some Patent Office services will be unavailable to Google Chrome users after September 2015.
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Kim Manwaring is a Phoenix neurosurgeon who invented a number of medical devices in his garage-turned-laboratory. He was profiled in the Arizona Republic this weekend, and I thought it was a great story of the and hard work and creative…
I’ve already received many calls from clients about the American Invents Act. For those who want an online reference, the USPTO has created a site that contains some very basic information about the changes it will bring. Some of those…
Patents can be thought as a “bundle of rights.” An issued patent carries with it a number of exclusive rights, each of which can be divided up individually from the others – removed from the bundle like one of many…