A patent (prior art) search is a process of identifying granted patents and published patent applications (collectively referred to as patent documents) that bear similarity to the subject matter which is of interest to you. A patent search is most often the first step in achieving different objectives, some of which are: • Determining [...]
There is a maze of information available online for new inventors, much of it very good and much of it highly questionable. Therefore, it is not surprising that each and every week I receive multiple general inquiries from newbie inventors. With that in mind, here is a list of the top 5 mistakes inventors [...]
If you are going to do your own searching and find relevant patents you are going to need to learn some strategies, and also about the free tools that are available to you. If you are going to do your own preliminary patent searching you will want to take a look at the United [...]
About SpaceX: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has since developed the Falcon launch [...]
Indian patent filing and jurisprudence in the biotech domain have seen neither the volume nor the attention enjoyed by the pharmaceuticals and telecommunications domains. Statistics published by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) for the five-year period from 2008 to 2013 reveal that while overall patent filing figures rose 18.6%, the biotech sector witnessed a [...]
One of the most frequent questions I get asked by inventors and businesses is about how much it will cost to obtain a utility patent in the US. Estimating US patent costs is a difficult matter because so much depends on the technology involved, but answering “it depends” is not particularly insightful or helpful. [...]
