Shimokaji IPJan 14, 2021MEDICAL DEVICE INVENTIONS THAT JUST GATHER AND REPORT DATA MAY NOT BE PATENTABLEMany innovative and useful medical device inventions sense, gather, and display data. However, those inventions may still not be...
Shimokaji IPDec 30, 2020A NON-OBVIOUS IMPROVEMENT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH FOR PATENTABILITYA 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...
Shimokaji IPDec 17, 2020AGAINST WHAT KIND OF INFRINGEMEN WILL A DESIGN PATENT PROTECT?Product owners often rely on design patents for protection against infringement by copycats. But they often also ask how similar or...
Shimokaji IPSep 24, 2020SHOULD AND HOW DO I GET FOREIGN PATENTS?Whether you should get foreign patents is a business decision. How you obtain a foreign patent can be done in a couple of ways.