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Design patents protect the ornamental appearance of an object.  With a design patent application, you can protect the shape of the object, the surface ornamentation of the object, or both.  A [...]

To prepare, file, and prosecute a patent application to get a patent granted costs money.  The costs fall into a few categories: cost for preparing the application (see my post on application [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]