FAQ

YOUR MEDICAL INVENTION MUST GO BEYOND COLLECTING/DISPLAYING DATA TO BE PATENTABLE

Medical inventions and technology are often developed to gather and process data more quickly. It can certainly be an advance over old...

IIMPROVEMENTS TO COMPUTER NETWORKS AND/OR ARCHITECTURE MAY HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF PATENTABILITY

A recent Federal Circuit decision reinforces the view that patents based on improved computer networks or architecture can be patentable....

INCREASING THE POTENTIAL PATENTABILITY OF A COMPUTERIZED METHOD OF ANALYZING DATA

Obtaining patent protection for using a computer to gather and analyze data continues to be a challenge - but not impossible. A recent...

MEDICAL DEVICE INVENTIONS THAT JUST GATHER AND REPORT DATA MAY NOT BE PATENTABLE

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

CAN YOU PATENT YOUR NEW SOCIAL NETWORK?

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 NON-OBVIOUS IMPROVEMENT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH FOR PATENTABILITY

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...

HOW DIFFICULT OR EASY IS IT TO PATENT SOFTWARE INVENTIONS?

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

SOFTWARE PATENT MUST PROVIDE ENOUGH DETAIL TO ENABLE ANOTHER TO MAKE AND USE THE INVENTION

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