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...
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Shimokaji IP
Sep 30, 2022
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....
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Aug 25, 2022
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...
Shimokaji IP
Jan 14, 2021
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...
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Jan 7, 2021
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...
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Dec 30, 2020
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...
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Jun 17, 2020
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
Shimokaji IP
May 22, 2020
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"
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