I am pleased to have been asked to give a presentation on technical writing, patent drafting, and patent prosecution at the University of Advancing Technology in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday, July 12, 2012. I have made the presentation slides available here.
An Ex Parte Quayle Action is a communication from the Patent Office closing prosecution on the merits in order to resolve technical details.
Sometimes a prospective client calls in need of help prosecuting his or her patent application. Sometimes, the caller informs me that they wrote the patent application themself (a “pro se applicant”), that it has been rejected, and that they now…
Patent searches allow an inventor to determine whether an invention is patentable and, if so, what aspects of the invention are patentable.
Patent drawings have to be good enough to have satisfactory reproduction characteristics.
The Patent and Trademark Office is unlikely to be closed if a government shutdown takes place tonight. The Office has a great deal of control over its own budget, and it maintains a reserve fund of money for certain situations…
The Patent Office has begun a new program to expedite certain patent applications which provide a glossary of the terms used in the claims.
On behalf of Professor Sid Stephen, myself, and my ENG 301 (technical writing) class we would like to thank you for your time this morning for a very insightful and open presentation on patents. It was a pleasure to have you here, and we wish there was more time for you to present more of the information you had for us. Classes are always made more exciting, and enriched when an industry professional comes in to present. I hope to see you again in class to see the rest of your presentation/ more information. We wish you luck in your practices, and once again thank you for your time in making this morning truly special.
Thanks Eric! It was my pleasure!