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What is an information disclosure statement in a patent application, and why is it crucial to your patent application? An information disclosure statement is a statement that you must make in a [...]

You probably know that trademarks can be words, stylized text, and pictures: like brand names, slogans, and logos. But you may not know that you can have shape trademarks trademarks could be just [...]

The US government IP Offices are responding to the coronavirus outbreak by adjusting rules and requirements to allow for increased safety of applicants and users, and of the examining attorneys and [...]

When you are protecting your inventions – devices, software, methods, materials – with patent applications, you should consider ways to expand the scope of protection. You can use continuation [...]

A continuation patent application is a patent application that lets you, the patent applicant, pursue patent claims that are based on the same invention description and drawings as another [...]

When you’ve applied for a patent, your patent application will often get a final rejection. This is a misleading term: it is the second rejection in the course of patent prosecution, after a [...]

Most trademarks are for words or images, used as brand names, company names, slogans, or logos, as discussed in several of my posts on trademarks.  A trademark can be just about anything that [...]

Today, January 15, 2019, is the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood, which happened in the North End neighborhood of Boston.  Over 2 million gallons of molasses burst from a storage tank [...]