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Foreign Filing Licenses: Key Considerations for U.S. Inventions
Pretty much every patent attorney has encountered a situation like this: on a Friday afternoon, you receive an urgent request…
24 Oct 2024
How to Avoid Self-Inflicted Wounds (Applicant Admitted Prior Art) in Your Patent Applications
When drafting their patent applications, many inventors have an instinct to gratuitously describe what others have developed before them. Understandably,…
18 Apr 2024
How Many Claims Should My Patent Have?
There’s often confusion about the purpose and impact of adding more claims in a patent application, and inventors often wonder…
23 Oct 2023
How to Slow Down Patent Prosecution with the USPTO
This is the second in a two-part blog series on controlling the speed of the patent process. (Read part one…
5 Oct 2018
ARIOSA V. ILLUMINA: DO PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATIONS COUNT AS PRIOR ART?
In a previous blog post, we discussed whether secret sales should count as prior art under the AIA. The Supreme Court…
13 Jul 2017
SHOULD WE FILE A PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION?
Depending on who you talk to, you might hear that filing a provisional patent application is always a mistake, or…