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Building Your IP Strategy for Patent-Intensive Tech Startups – Part 3: IP Management
This is the third in a four-part blog series on how to build an IP strategy for patent-intensive tech startups.
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…
17 Jul 2019
HOW TO AVOID APPLICANT ADMITTED PRIOR ART IN YOUR PATENT APPLICATIONS
When drafting their patent applications, inventors often want to be very gratuitous in explaining what others before them have developed. …
12 Jul 2019
HOW MANY CLAIMS SHOULD MY PATENT HAVE?
Inventors often wonder whether the number of claims can affect the overall strength and value of their patent. In a…
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…