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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
