http://www.ipwatchdog.com Patents, Software Patents, Patent Applications & Patent Law Sat, 25 May 2013 15:38:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/01/17/new-patent-fees-uspto-exercises-fee-setting-authority/id=33500/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/01/17/new-patent-fees-uspto-exercises-fee-setting-authority/id=33500/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:51:46 +0000 Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=33500 Related posts:

1. USPTO Proposes Significantly Higher Patent FeesThe recurring theme will be decreased fees for those who qualify for micro-entity status, but increased fees for everyone else. That is great, but micro-entity status will not even apply to all independent inventors, but only a subset of independent inventors who are at the lowest end of the income scale and who have had very few patents or patent applications. Thus, even the professional garage inventor will be a small entity and will pay more — in some cases substantially more — than they pay now. Not to mention the small businesses that are the engine of the U.S....
2. PTO Proposes Changes to Implement Micro Entity Patent FeesThe amend to the rules of practice in patent cases is for the purpose of implementing the micro entity provision of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). If an applicant qualifies as a micro entity, then the applicant is eligible to pay reduced patent fees once the USPTO exercises its fee setting authority under the AIA. The fee setting provision in the AIA sets the micro entity discount at 75% of the fees set or adjusted for filing, searching, examining, issuing, appealing, and maintaining patent applications and patents....
3. USPTO Implements Micro-Entity Discount Effective March 2013The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement the micro entity provision of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). Certain patent fees set or adjusted under the fee setting authority in the AIA will be reduced by seventy-five percent for micro entities. The USPTO is revising the rules of practice to set out the procedures pertaining to claiming micro entity status, paying patent fees as a micro entity, notification of loss of micro entity status, and correction of payments of patent fees paid erroneously in the micro entity amount....

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ]]> http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/01/17/new-patent-fees-uspto-exercises-fee-setting-authority/id=33500/feed/ 5 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/02/18/what-do-the-proposed-patent-fee-changes-really-mean/id=22337/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/02/18/what-do-the-proposed-patent-fee-changes-really-mean/id=22337/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:19:25 +0000 Eric Guttag http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=22337 Related posts:

1. USPTO Proposes Significantly Higher Patent FeesThe recurring theme will be decreased fees for those who qualify for micro-entity status, but increased fees for everyone else. That is great, but micro-entity status will not even apply to all independent inventors, but only a subset of independent inventors who are at the lowest end of the income scale and who have had very few patents or patent applications. Thus, even the professional garage inventor will be a small entity and will pay more — in some cases substantially more — than they pay now. Not to mention the small businesses that are the engine of the U.S....
2. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Seeks Comment on Proposed Fee Schedule as Mandated by America Invents ActThe proposed fees are at least 22 percent lower for a routine patent process—i.e., filing, search, examination, publication, and issue fees—than the current fee schedule. The current proposed fees also are lower than those originally proposed by the USPTO in February. The USPTO is opening a 60-day comment period in which the public can provide input on the latest proposal. Following the comment period, the Office will prepare the final fee-setting rule, which would go into effect no less than 45 days after it is published in the Federal Register....
3. Proposed Rules for Supplemental Examination, Revised Reexamination Fees and Deadline for Satellite Office CommentsThe United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is proposing rules of practice in patent cases to implement the supplemental examination provisions of the America Invents Act. The USPTO is also proposing to adjust the fee for filing a request for ex parte reexamination and to set a fee for petitions filed in ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings to more accurately reflect the cost of these processes. The USPTO published these proposed rules in the Federal Register on January 25, 2012....

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ]]> http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/02/18/what-do-the-proposed-patent-fee-changes-really-mean/id=22337/feed/ 7 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/01/28/the-cost-of-obtaining-patent/id=14668/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/01/28/the-cost-of-obtaining-patent/id=14668/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:14:27 +0000 Gene Quinn http://ipwatchdog.com/?p=14668 Related posts:

1. Inventor Pitfalls: Causing Irretrievable Patent DamageAll too often inventors feel that the assistance of a patent attorney is really not necessary. That is an opinion shared by many unfortunately. It is not unfortunate for the patent attorney really, but rather it is unfortunate for those who hold the belief because invariably those who represent themselves obtain rights that are so narrow that they are practically useless. Recently I have had the occasion to be contacted by several independent inventors who did file their own nonprovisional patent applications and are now facing a First Office Action that rejects all the claims. A First Office Action that...
2. When Should a Do It Yourself Inventor Seek Patent Assistance?It is certainly true that once you file a nonprovisional patent application your ability to make additions to the application has largely ceased. Even if you are filing a provisional patent application, while you could always file another provisional patent application to correct mistakes, the first filing is only as good as what is disclosed. Taking the first filed patent application seriously and making sure it has all the necessary disclosure is absolutely critical. Therefore, having a professional review your patent application before you file is definitely wise. The question, however, is when do you seek the assistance? Frequently many...
3. An Overview of the U.S. Patent ProcessFor example, does a hair dryer with integrated radio, beer bottle opener, shaving cream dispenser that floats sound marketable? Perhaps as a gag gift maybe, but the addition of random features for the sake of obtaining a patent is not usually wise. I've seen terribly broad disclosures filed for an inventor with one extraordinarily specific embodiment. Right away I can tell what is happening. The patent attorney (or patent agent) is drafting the disclosure so that at least one claim, no matter how narrow, can be obtained. Unfortunately, it does not typically make sense to layer on specifics unless those...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ]]> http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/01/28/the-cost-of-obtaining-patent/id=14668/feed/ 28