A design patent protects an article of manufacture. For example, a design patent may cover a chair or even a surgical tool. Your design...

One's ability to register a trademark can depend on whether the trademark to be registered creates a "likelihood of confusion" with a...

Business owners may find it useful to use in their trademark the city or state in which the business is located. The inclusion of a...

So much of the medical advances today involve a diagnostic test and interpreting the test results. But is the technological advance...

The USPTO recently criticized the manner in which the number of patent and trademark filings in China is influenced by the Chinese...

Many innovative and useful medical device inventions sense, gather, and display data. However, those inventions may still not be...

New social networks continue to be created each day. But can you protect your new social network with a patent and prevent it from being...

A basic tenet of patent law has been that an invention must be new and non-obvious for it to be patentable. "New" means that the...

Product owners often rely on design patents for protection against infringement by copycats. But they often also ask how similar or...

There can be multiple inventors on a patent. But who owns the patent can be difficult to answer in the absence of an agreement.

Who is listed as an inventor on your patent can affect its validity. An incorrectly named inventor may make your patent invalid.

Whether you should get foreign patents is a business decision. How you obtain a foreign patent can be done in a couple of ways.

A broadly written patent application can give the patent owner broad patent protection.

Trademarks are often categorized on a "distinctiveness" scale from generic, descriptive, suggestive, arbitrary, and to fanciful.

A challenge that most patent applicants face is whether their invention is obvious or non-obvious.

Some of the advantages of filing a provisional patent application are lower cost and faster time to file.

In the past several years, it has no doubt become challenging to patent software inventions. However, it is still possible to obtain patents

Patent infringement is determined by comparing the patented "claims" against the product that might be infringing.

the patent "specification shall contain a written description of the invention . . . in full, clear, and concise, and exact terms"

The Federal Circuit explained that "'as a general rule preamble language is not treated as limiting.'"