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Semiconductor Technology: An Overview of the Global Patent Landscape

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Semiconductor Technology: An Overview of the Global Patent Landscape

This blog post is the first in a series that discusses intellectual property opportunities for high-tech businesses looking to innovate…

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How to Avoid Self-Inflicted Wounds (Applicant Admitted Prior Art) in Your Patent Applications

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,…

How Many Claims Should My Patent Have?

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…

How to Slow Down Patent Prosecution with the USPTO

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…

ARIOSA V. ILLUMINA: DO PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATIONS COUNT AS PRIOR ART?

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…

SHOULD WE FILE A PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION?

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…