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

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...

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

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

A provisional patent application is not necessarily better or worse than a non-provisional (utility) patent application in all situations.

Inventors often focus on the question of: can I get a patent? What is often ignored is: does my invention infringe another's patent?

QUESTION: Is it safe to contact a manufacturer with just a provisional patent? I have a provisional patent instead of a non-provisional...

QUESTION: I make metal art and metal stencils for wood working and other art. I recently had a company that claimed I am in violation of...

QUESTION: Can I avoid infringement if my product does not fall into the current scope of the competitor's patent application? What if I...