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Provisional Patent Buys You a Year … Well, Not Really

When you have an invention, and you are not ready to file a complete non-provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark

We’re not just lawyers and inventors, we’re people – and it only takes one letter to change PATENT to PARENT. As many of us are dealing with the

The road to patent registration can be long and confusing – especially for a first-time inventor. Below is Part I of a broad overview of the major

When you have a patent registered with the USPTO, you get up to a 20-year exclusive monopoly to practice your patent. No one can make your patented

What do you do if you have the next great idea but you are not sure if it is patentable? If you file a patent application, won’t it be available for

For the last two decades, patent holders – many of them “trolls” – have favored suing accused infringers in the Eastern District of Texas, even those

In the hierarchy of mail that business owners hate to receive, including annoying junk mail and requisite bills, the most frightening mail might be

Last week, I had a refreshing and unusual telephone conversation with a patent examiner from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

It’s not uncommon for us to get calls from prospective clients who want us to “patent their logo,” or otherwise incorrectly try to use intellectual