The date on which a patent assignment of an inventor’s patent rights is made can have a significant effect on downstream prosecution and success of the application(s) directed to the invention. During prosecution, the Examiner will almost always cite prior…
A protest is one type of pre-issuance submission of prior art.
Since 2013, patent applications can only be revived under an unintentionally-delayed standard.
US patent law has provisions that account for space activity.
A trademark for a smell can be obtained, but it can be difficult.
A trademark has acquired distinctiveness if it has become known in the industry after several years of use as designating the source of the goods or services on which it is used.
An RCE is a request made in a pending patent application to obtain continued examination after the application has received a final rejection and examination of the application has been closed.
The US Patent and Trademark Office rolled out a new website recently. It is intended to improve the experience of doing business with the USPTO.
Patent drawings have to be good enough to have satisfactory reproduction characteristics.
Arizona patent attorney Tom Galvani has been selected as a Super Lawyers Southwest Rising Star for the third year running.