Inter partes review is a trial proceeding conducted at the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (Board) at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to re-investigate the patentability of one or more claims in an "already-issued" patent only on a ground that could be raised under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 or 103, and only [...]
US Code: Title 35 Patents •PART I - UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (§§ 1 to 42) •PART II - PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS (§§ 100 to 212) •PART III - PATENTS AND PROTECTION OF PATENT RIGHTS (§§ 251 to 329) •PART IV - PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (§§ 351 to 376) [...]
We work with you collaboratively and concurrently, preferably using an online collaboration tool, to work together to "flush out" your invention and set it to paper in a text document (for example, a Microsoft Word document), with accompanying drawings (informal or formal, typically in pdf format) sufficient to together show that you as the inventor [...]
The first stage in any patent application process is preparing and filing a patent application. If the patent application is a design patent application, there are no real shortcuts, but the costs associated with the preparation and filing of design patent applications are much less than those associated with filing full, non-provisional utility patent applications, [...]
Start-ups should have a plan to protect any Intellectual Property (IP) that they develop before and during the start-up operation and of course as the business entity grows. Doing so, however, is not always easy because putting IP protection in place takes money, and money is scarce in the beginning stages of any business entity. [...]
Our definition of Intellectual Property (IP) may be a bit informal than more formal or institutional definitions. We see IP as patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets (e.g., proprietary "know-how"). The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a handy e-book explaining what Intellectual Property (IP) is. The e-book in the PDF format can be found [...]
Filing a provisional makes sense when you have limited funds and you want to take advantage of the relatively new “first to file” rules implemented under the America Invents Act, perhaps as importantly, when you have a “bar date” approaching (i.e., if you don’t file before or on the bar data your lose your rights). When [...]