Posts Tagged: ideas
Beyond the Slice and Dice: Turning Your Idea into an Invention
The patent process actually starts well before you file a patent application or seek assistance from a patent attorney. Every patent application starts with an invention, and …
Moving from Idea to Patent: When Do You Have an Invention?
When you are moving from idea to invention to patent, regardless of how or why you find yourself stuck in the idea phase, the first order of …
Protecting an Idea: Can Ideas Be Patented or Protected?
Many people ask: can ideas be patented? The short answer is no. Unfortunately, despite what you may have heard from late night television commercials, there is no …
Turning Your Idea into an Invention
Like anything in life that is new, whether it be returning to exercise after a lengthy hiatus or learning a new language, you have to walk before …
Inventing 101: Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help
Once you get that first provisional patent application filed you are ready to approach others for assistance with your invention. You have a measure of protection, but …
What is a patent and where do patent rights come from?
A patent is a proprietary right granted by the Federal government pursuant to laws passed by Congress. The Congressional power to authorize patents is found in Article …
Helping start-ups turn ideas into valuable assets
The first thing we do is we assess the idea. And when we assess the idea we verify that the idea can lead to the creation of …
Abstraction in the Commonplace: Alice v. CLS Bank and its Use of Ubiquity to Determine Patent Eligibility
A troubling aspect of the analysis in the Alice opinion is the suggestion that an invention, once patent eligible, can become patent ineligible simply based on the …
Moving from Idea to Patent – When Do You Have an Invention?
In order to protect an idea it must mature into an invention first. This means that you need to be able to explain to others how to …
Protecting Ideas: Can Ideas Be Protected or Patented?
Unfortunately, despite what you may have heard from late night television, satellite radio commercials or snake oil salesmen, there is no effective way to protect an idea… …
The Alice in Wonderland En Banc Decision by the Federal Circuit in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp
All the Judges rely on the same Supreme Court precedents in Gottschalk v Benson, Parker v. Flook, Diamond v. Diehr, Bilski v. Kappos, and Mayo v. Prometheus. …
A Beginner’s Guide to Patents and the Patent Process
Even when hiring a patent attorney inventors still need to be engaged in order to give the patent attorney the best information available about the invention. This …
The Real McCoy Part 2: I am a Man Who Thinks and My Thoughts are Valuable
One of the more indelible images of the civil rights movement are those from the Spring of 1968 as Black sanitation workers went on strike in Memphis, Tennessee …
Inventing 101: Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help
So how do you decide whether you have a mere idea or a conception that is on the road to a full blown invention? That is a …
Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help
At what point does an idea take enough form to be considered an invention that can be protected? First, it is completely correct to say that ideas …
