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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 [...]

Software can be protected with patents.  The source code of the software is not protectable with patents (though it may be protectable with copyright), and neither is the object code or the [...]

You have a registered trademark – well done.  But your work isn’t over.  Now, you have to do several things to keep your trademark registration alive, and you must avoid a few other [...]

A patent examiner at the USPTO will sometimes send an Election/Restriction Requirement in response to a patent application.  This is an assertion by the examiner that the application claims more [...]

Patent prosecution is the process of applying for a patent with a national patent office, such as the USPTO, assessing their responses, and following up on the application to have one or more [...]

I ordered takeout food recently, and we had a mix-up at the restaurant that made me think of the US patent system, and its recent switch from a “first to invent” to a “first to [...]

You want to file a patent application or provisional patent application to protect your innovation, and you’re looking for a provisional patent application form.  There’s good news [...]

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 [...]

I often hear the question “What will it cost to apply for a patent?”  Short answer: “it depends.” For more help and guidance on patent application cost, read on. What does [...]