Patent Application

Can I Patent My Food Recipe?

Family restaurant recipes are often kept secrets to protect their livelihood and fend off competition, but it is rare for…

11 years ago

3D Printing: An Intellectual Property Nightmare

3D printing. What is it exactly? The media has been mentioning it more and more often but it is still…

11 years ago

Obtaining Additional Claim Scope In A Related Patent Application

By: Mark Malek In my last post I discussed the different parts of a patent application.  You may recall that…

11 years ago

The Parts Of A Patent Application

The Parts Of A Patent Application There are many parts of a patent application, and each part is very important…

11 years ago

Inventorship and Fraud

Inventor and Fraud If an inventor is under an obligation to assign the rights to an invention to a company,…

11 years ago

Obtaining Patent Rights For A Deceased Inventor

Obtaining Patent Rights For A Deceased Inventor If an inventor passes away prior to filing a patent application, or prior…

11 years ago

Enablement Requirement – Get In Those Details!

The Enablement Requirement can come into play in the most critical moments in patent prosecution

11 years ago

Uncooperative Inventors

Uncooperative Inventors What happens when an inventor refuses to sign filing documents of a patent application? Remaining inventors may file…

11 years ago

Case Brief: CLS Bank v. Alice (Round 5)

In a dissent from the court opinion filed in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp, Federal Circuit Judges Linn and O’Malley unceremoniously burst…

11 years ago

How to Correct Inventorship

How To Correct Inventorship On A Patent Application In cases where either the wrong inventors were listed on a patent…

11 years ago