search for prior art

Before you set out to patent any invention, you should conduct or have some one else conduct a thorough patent search. There are two main reasons for this. First, you…

is invention patentable

A lot of inventions are not patentable, even if they are new and non-obvious.  35 USC 101 --  See the US Patent Office Subject Matter eligibility Guidelines  Predict whether claim language…

trade secrets

Most information of companies is actually not patented or trademarked. Instead, the information exists in a form of intellectual property called trade secrets. To maintain information as a trade secret,…

trademarks

Useful Links:  TMEP (Trademark Manual Examination Procedure Manual).   Trademark Goods Manual (search for the class for your goods/services) MADRID Protocol (WIPO)  Madrid Goods and Services Manager (lets you find the correct goods and international services…

copyrights

Copyright Clearance Center (way to ask permission and license works including AI) Stanford University (fair use) Since 1978, Copyright exists as soon as you express your original idea onto some…

considerformsIP

Related Links:  Patents for Humanity (an awards process for inventors who invent to help humanity). Ever wonder why IBM and Microsoft spends millions of dollars obtaining thousands of patents each year?…

DNA diagnostic claims –DNA alles

The claim at issue in Genetic Technologies Limited v. Merial LLC  Fed. Cir. 2016, was the following: 1. A method for detection of at least one coding region allele of…

Treatment Steps in Diagnostic claims

The USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that treatment of a subject for pre-eclmpsia based on the elvel of soluble endoglin and sFlt-1 together was a specific application of…