Posts in Patent Drafting Basics
Patent Drafting Basics: Instruction Manual Detail is What You Seek
In some important ways a patent application should be akin to an instruction manual, but unlike the aforementioned BBQ grill, the reader of relevant skill in the …
How to Write a Patent Application
Writing a patent application is not as easy as many think. Indeed, the concept of usefully describing the invention, which on its face seems easy enough to …
Admissions as Prior Art in a Patent: What they are and why you need to avoid them
So what is an admission? A statement made during patent prosecution identifying the work of another as prior art is called an admission. Admissions can and will …
Patent Drafting: The most valuable patent focuses on structural uniqueness of an invention
It can be enormously difficult for inventors to describe their own inventions. This is true not because the inventor doesn’t know what they’ve invented, or …
Patent Drafting: Proving You’re in Possession of the Invention
The purpose of the written description requirement is broader than to merely explain how to make and use the invention, which is the subject of the enablement …
Patent Drafting: Understanding the Enablement Requirement
The enablement requirement is specifically aimed at ensuring the claimed invention is described with sufficient detail so the relevant person of skill in the art or technology …
Patent Drafting 101: Say What You Mean in a Patent Application
When drafting a patent application it is always the best policy to never assume anything. It is dangerous to assume that the reader will fill in any …
Patent Drafting 101: Going a Mile Wide and Deep with Variations in a Patent Application
You absolutely want to file a patent application with a description that is a mile wide — that part is good — but you also need to also drill …
Learning from common patent application mistakes by inventors
The goal in a patent application is to provide a full, clear, and exact description of the invention in a way that particularly points out and distinctly …
Defining Computer Related Inventions in a post-Alice World
it is absolutely critical that computer related inventions describe the technology to the greatest extent possible, focusing on as much that is tangible as …
Patent Application Drafting: Using the Specification for more than the ordinary plain meaning
As a general rule the ordinary plain meaning of the term as would be understood by someone of skill in the relevant technology area or science will …
Patent Strategy: Advanced Patent Claim Drafting for Inventors
Today we pick up our series with discussion of some advanced patent claim drafting strategies for inventors and others new to the art of claim drafting. Sometimes …
Patent Drafting 101: The Basics of Describing Your Invention in a Patent Application
One big mistake inventors make is they will go on page after page in their draft patent application about how they came up with the idea for …
Patent Drafting for Beginners: The anatomy of a patent claim
First, every patent claim needs a preamble, which is the introductory phrase in a claim... Second, every patent claim needs a transition. The most common transitions are: “…
Patent Drafting for Beginners: A prelude to patent claim drafting
The art of patent claim drafting is an undeniably difficult art to master. It is, however, essential for those in the patent space to both appreciate, understand …
