A patent grant affords certain legal protections which can increase the value of an invention. Generally, a patent provides a twenty-year monopoly period, during which the inventor, or another party who has rights to the patent ..

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a collaborative deferred-fee provisional patent application pilot program for inventions that combat COVID-19, an outbreak that generated a global crisis in urgent need of creative solutions.

Although thousands of appeals are filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board annually, patent applicants utilize oral hearings in relatively few of them. As a result, many patent professionals do not have experience, or do not have significant experience, in oral hearings.

Last month we discussed some ideas for preventing 101 rejections. A few additional tips may be helpful in this regard. Also provided herein are some additional general tips to help obtain allowable claims that will provide patents that add value to a client’s portfolio.

The United States currently has the largest number of enforced patents in the world. Most people agree that the commercial and scientific market conditions of the nation are highly conducive and inspiring for innovators to focus on their art and create patentable technologies.

The most fundamental method of monetization is to turn your intellectual property into commercial products. Intellectual property represents the heart of commercial strategies, as is proven by its growing measure of the fixed assets in the enterprise value.

The effects of the COVID-19 outbreak have created an extraordinary situation for affected patent applicants and patentees. Therefore, USPTO is extending the time period for petitioning for certain rights of priority or benefit and waiving the associated petition fee.