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Economic Uncertainty? Weather the Storm with Patents!
- July 22, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Categories: Ip Topics, Latest article
No CommentsIt is currently summer, but winter is just around the corner. For the second straight quarter of 2022, venture capital funding fell more than 20%. Investors have pulled back on deals by as much as 15% in the first…
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Establishing Patent Incentive Programs
- June 15, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Categories: Ip Topics, Latest article
At M&B IP, we want you to surpass your goals and have your innovations broadly protected. In order to maximize investments in your inventions and R&D, you should also utilize Patent Incentive Programs to recognize and fully capitalize…
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4 steps on How to Protect Crypto Technologies! Download our Free eBook!
- May 25, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
4 steps on How to Protect Crypto Technologies! Download our Free eBook!
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Patent Coverage and Portfolio Strategy
- April 20, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
Picture this: you’ve poured your blood, sweat, and tears into your startup company. It started as nothing more than an idea and has grown into a highly successful venture. In fact, your company is so successful that you’re looking at an upcoming IPO…
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M&B IP Congratulates Our Client Excelero On Their Acquisition By Nvidia
- March 14, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
Excelero is an Israeli start-up founded in 2014 and has its registered headquarters in San Jose, California. Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale.
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Patenting NFT Inventions: What You Need to Know
- February 22, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
Are you working on new NFT-related projects in the wake of the current market hype around NFTs? Like for any other technology, you should be considering whether there are any aspects of your project which may be patentable. In this second part of our two-part series on NFT technology and patents, we will give you some tips about…
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What is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT)?
- January 21, 2022
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
A picture is worth a thousand words, but what is the value of an art collage in US dollars? In the case of Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, the answer is shockingly high: 69 million USD. Winkelmann’s collage was digitized and packaged as an NFT, then sold at auction. Many similar examples of digital art …
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What is a Restriction Requirement?
- November 30, 2021
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
There can be only one invention per one patent application. If an Examiner finds that the claims in a single application point to multiple inventions, he will issue a Restriction Requirement, to choose one of the multiple inventions found for the current application. This can be issued at any time during the application process, up until a final office action.
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Diving into Claim Drafting
- August 29, 2021
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Category: Latest article
Claims are single sentence descriptions of an invention that clearly establish the parameters and limits of what can infringe on a given patent. All non-provisional applications, including design applications, must have claims. There are two types of claims: independent and dependent. By default, each utility application allows for 3 independent claims and 20 claims total.
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Due Dates to Know in Patent Prosecution
- June 30, 2021
- Posted by: mbipuser
- Categories: Ip Topics, Latest article
There are many deadlines, some of which are non-extendable, that surround the patent application process. Knowing the various due dates of patent prosecution will arm an applicant with knowledge that can help the ease and progress of an application.