Law Clerk Sam Finkel contributed to this article. Reissue applications are often filed to pursue claim scope different from the original patent. For utility applications, this may mean revising or ...

Effective April 17, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) suspended the expedited examination process for design patent applications under 37 CFR 1.155, commonly referred to as the “Rocket Docket ...

(TNS) — "Patent pending" may become "patent granted" sooner for hopeful innovators throughout New Hampshire and across the country looking to file protection on their inventions with the launch of a ...

“Before filing, every inventor should pause and ask these seven questions. Doing so doesn’t just improve your odds of getting a patent granted, but it also strengthens your ability to enforce, license ...

A new law which will streamline patent applications and attempt to harmonise the US patent system with procedures abroad was passed by Congress this week. The Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of ...

At its core, a patent is a contract between an inventor, who agrees to disclose detailed information about their invention to the public, and the state, which grants them exclusive rights to that ...