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.
UPDATE: APRIL 28: The USPTO has updated its program which changes some of the information below regarding dates. Read more here. The Patent Office is allowing certain filing and fee deadlines to be extended due to the coronavirus pandemic in…
I’ve been getting questions about provisional applications lately, so I thought it was worth a post. There are a number of ways in which the decision to file a provisional application is significantly different from a patent application. First, a…
The online version of MPEP 2141 states, in Section II: The factual inquiries enunciated by the Court [in Graham] are as follows: (A) Ascertaining the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art; and (B) Ascertaining the differences between…
Social networking helped you connect with your high school friends, then helped you find colleagues and business contacts across the country. Now it is being used by companies to ward off marauding trademark holders protecting their brand and then some,…
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,…
