Posts Tagged: patent search
How to Maximize the Validity of Your Issued Patent Portfolio
Companies that have a strong, diversified patent portfolio can establish themselves as key innovators within a particular field and secure a freedom to operate in that field. …
WIPO’s INSPIRE Offers a New Way to Select Databases for Patent Searches Involving Machine Translations
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched their INSPIRE (Index of Specialized Patent Information Reports) “database of databases” on November 4, 2020. It provides useful summaries of patent databases …
Intellectual Property Considerations and Guidance for Start-Ups: Patents
Intellectual property probably isn’t high on the to-do list for most new nonprofits and business start-ups. There’s plenty enough to do with setting up an …
Investing in Inventing: A Patent Process Primer for Startups
The patent process is long and complex, but well worth the effort if it means protecting your invention and your new company. Key decisions made along the …
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 …
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 …
Invention to Patent 101 – Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
This page and website contain contain detailed information to help inventors on the road from invention to patent... Below are a sampling of inventor help links to …
From filing to challenge, modern patent practice is all about prior art
The patent process can be expensive, so the last thing you want to do is spend a lot of money preparing and filing an application when there …
The Patent Process on a Tight but Realistic Budget
The patent process can be overwhelming and quite costly for an inventor who wishes to secure patent protection on their invention. But there are certain steps of …
Free vs. Fee Patent Research
At the time, some commentators suggested that this explosion in free patent information would come at the expense of the commercial vendors and looked forward to a “…
The China Syndrome: How recent developments in Chinese patents affect U.S. applicants
Chinese patents and patent applications are citable as prior art in most Western countries if they meet the usual criteria regarding publication dates of the cited patent …
What Will Happen When the USPTO Releases its APIs to the Wild?
Recently, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Michelle Lee talked about releasing its APIs for patent data into the wild. What does this really mean? “…
Navigating the ever-changing global IP landscape requires an expert guide
Would you climb Everest without an expert guide? You shouldn’t navigate the global IP landscape without one either. The global intellectual property terrain is becoming increasingly …
Patent searches are always a good idea, even if your invention is not on the market
While surveying the market is a wise first step, frequently there are patents lurking that have simply not been used to develop commercial products. This can be …
After Searching: Patent Filing Options and PCT ISAs
According to WIPO data, USPTO, EPO and KIPO are major ISAs for U.S. applicants; about 94% of intentional searches have been done by these three patent offices. …
