There is something more coming, with an outstanding opinion from the Federal Circuit on the reviewability of patent trial and appellate board's time bar decision and from the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of IPRs and the PTAB authority to institute proceedings partially. 1. The SC will grant review for only a few patents The Supreme [...]
Recycling old content can be very economical business tactics, it certainly has been the best strategy. For businesses, educational, institutional, and charities, using already existing content to draw attention to the campaign, performances and activities can be tremendous time saver. However if you want to use very much of original content you need to [...]
As an intellectual property owner it is important to know how to enforce your right. While there are people who will deliberately take someone's intellectual property and use it as their own, in many cases, misuse it as their own, in many cases, misuse can be chalked up to lack communication. To minimize the risk [...]
Before you can claim protection for your Intellectual property creation, you need to be sure someone else has not created it. Even if you need to know you wont be infringing on someone else right before you begin to use, manufacture or sell a new creation. You do this by searching various databases and publication [...]
The basic invention takes some data from inputs encodes it in a certain way and then sends the data out. It sounds like a server and it pretty much in its functionality, but what would i like to patent is how it takes the data and encodes it. So would i have to describe all [...]
One of the sticky areas of Intellectual Property is who owns the right to an invention created by an employee during , his or her work for an employer. In general, current US intellectual property law starts with the assumption that the inventor owns the right to invention. It is generally considered Prima facie evidence [...]
