What is an Ex Parte Quayle Action?
An Ex Parte Quayle Action is a communication from the Patent Office closing prosecution on the merits in order to resolve technical details.
Importance of Patent Assignment Dating Practices
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…
Submitting Prior Art in Another’s Patent Application
A protest is one type of pre-issuance submission of prior art.
Revival of a Patent Application under the Unintentional Delay Standard
Since 2013, patent applications can only be revived under an unintentionally-delayed standard.
But What About Space Inventions?
US patent law has provisions that account for space activity.
What is an RCE?
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.
New Website at US Patent and Trademark Office
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.
How Good Do Patent Drawings Have To Be?
Patent drawings have to be good enough to have satisfactory reproduction characteristics.
Supreme Court Sanctions Patent Attorney
The Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari in a patent case and then asked the attorney why he shouldn’t be sanctioned for his poorly-written brief.
Public Use of an Invention
Public use is a tricky area of law that can affect whether you can obtain a patent on an invention.