Posts Tagged: famous inventors
Patent Applications 101: Drawings Really Should be Required
Better practice remains to file applications with any and all drawings necessary to understand the invention. The best practice is not only to file what is necessary, …
PTAB Reform: An Urgent Request on Behalf of Independent Inventors
What follows is a letter on the topic of PTAB reform that will be sent to USPTO Director Andrei Iancu on Monday, May 14, 2018. The letter seeks urgent …
USPTO Director Iancu Makes Surprise Appearance at Inventor Conference
"We are focused on delivering reliable and predictable IP rights," Director Iancu told the Inventor Group Presidents gathered at the Patent Office as he addressed them to …
Director Iancu speaks of Wright Brothers as champions of innovation, not villains
Here is what Director Iancu had to say about the Wright Brothers: "At my swearing-in, I remarked that through the doors of the U.S. Patent and …
Mary Engle Pennington: The Mother of Modern Food Preservation
The preservation of food and beverage products for safe consumption despite extended shelf lives at grocery stores is a major global industry. Both consumers and companies have …
Understanding Substitutes: Is your invention desirable to consumers?
Frequently one of the most challenging aspects of inventing is determining what need a particular invention fills. This is not to suggest that inventors do not know …
Inventorship 101: Who are Inventors and Joint Inventors?
Inventorship is one of the most fundamental concepts in patent law. Of course, fundamental does not mean easy or uncomplicated. Patents are granted to inventors, which is …
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 …
Provisional Applications: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Provisional applications can be a very useful tool, but only when they are done right. When provisional patent applications are done poorly you not only obtain no …
Patent Search 101: Why US Patent Searches are Critically Important
Patents are expensive to obtain. The last thing you want to do is spend a lot of money if there are easy to find references a US …
10 Critical Pieces of Advice for Inventors
There really is no one-size-fits-all approach inventors can follow, and there is no inventing roadmap to success that will work in all cases. Notwithstanding, there are certainly …
Earle Dickson Invents Band-Aid® Bandages to Promote Healing
December 28 marks the anniversary of the issuance of a patent covering a bandage technology commonly known as the Band-Aid®, invented at Johnson & Johnson... In order to speed …
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 …
Inventors Protest PTAB on Supreme Court Steps
Yesterday, a group of dedicated inventors took to the steps of the United States Supreme Court in order to protest the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) …
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 …
