Patent

I’m honored to announce that I’ll be giving a patent prosecution presentation at the Boston Bar Association this evening. What is patent prosecution? Patent prosecution is the process [...]

Today is Pi Day: March 14th, when written as 3-14 (in the American style), looks like the first 3 digits of pi.  Today is an auspicious Pi Day, as the abbreviated (American) style of writing [...]

What could be more appropriate for Valentine’s Day than roses, candy, and diamonds?  How about patents related to roses, candy, and diamonds!  Read on to discover more [...]

Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – or, the 217th anniversary of it.  He is the only U.S. President who has ever been granted a patent.  To celebrate his birthday, his inventiveness and [...]

The USPTO defines three categories of applicants and inventors: you can apply as a large entity, small entity, or micro entity.  Why does this matter?  The entity size affects the fees owed to [...]

The holiday season is here (and winter has started with the solstice, although on much of the US East Coast it doesn’t quite feel like winter… yet).  And with the holidays, of course, [...]

Star Wars: Episode VII, The Force Awakens (IMDB listing; Google search), opens tonight for most of us – the Force is strong with those who have already seen it.  Excited, I am!  (That’s an [...]

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) allows patent applicants to relatively easily apply to protect an invention in one or many countries.  Note that a PCT patent application is not an [...]

This week in patents, 6771 patents were issued by the USPTO.  Of those, three were in US Classifications that relate to data processing or computer-implemented methods, that is, something related [...]

Reflecting on Veterans Day last week, as a patent attorney, I thought about inventions and patents that have kept, and still keep, our service members safer and let them do their jobs more [...]