Posts Tagged: independent inventors
Raid on Gibraltar: How the U.S. Patent System was Rigged Against Independent Inventors
The numbers are stark. As recently as 1990, individual inventors were granted 17 percent of all patents. By 2000, they received 12 percent and only 6.8 percent in 2010. In 2015, individual inventors were …
Advice for Young Inventors
Inventing success for young inventors comes when they are passionate, inspired and dedicated, which is not unlike success in all areas of life... While passion is required, …
Enhance Product Development: Ideation, Design and Licensing for Inventors
Brainstorming, whiteboards and a 3D printer constantly humming. The Invention Lab of Enhance Product Development is always a flurry of innovative activity. If you are an invention …
Patent Searches: A Great Opportunity for Inventors to Focus on What is Unique
Patent searches are excellent learning tools because they give you an opportunity to discover which aspects of your invention are most likely to contribute to patentability, thereby …
FTC wins preliminary injunction against operators of World Patent Marketing
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a preliminary injunction against World Patent …
Should I File a Patent Application Before Licensing the Invention?
I am frequently asked by inventors whether they should file a patent application before seeking to license their invention. Some even ask whether they should first obtain …
How patent quality extremism and money-can-buy-fairness have ruined the U.S. patent system
Patent reformers argue that too many patents can hurt business, and low-quality patents cause problems. Their lobby activities have successfully persuaded the Congress to pass the AIA, …
How to Create Patent Rights
Intellectual property is distinguished from “real property” because the property itself exists in our heads and needs to be “created” through a process of description and examination. …
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 …
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 …
The PTAB: Number One Enemy of Inventors
When we apply for a patent, we are sharing our secret, our discovery, with the world. In exchange for sharing our secret we are promised 20 years of …
Why Patent Attorneys Don’t Work on Contingency
The first thing to understand is that there is no such thing as contingency representation for purpose of preparing, filing and ultimately obtaining a patent. Patent attorneys …
Patentability: The Adequate Description Requirement of 35 U.S.C. 112
The crux of this so-called adequate description requirement is that once the first four patentability requirements are satisfied the applicant still must describe the invention with enough …
Patentability: The Nonobviousness Requirement of 35 U.S.C. 103
The nonobviousness requirement is a critical element to patentability. In essence, even if the applicant can demonstrate patentable subject matter, utility and novelty, the patent will not …
Patentability Overview: When can an Invention be Patented?
Unfortunately, the patentability requirements are frequently misunderstood. For many who are not well versed in patent law one of the reasons it can be confusing when considering …
