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…
Is the claim directed to one of the patent-ineligible concepts? Rapid Litigation
The Supreme Court in Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289, 1294, 1296-98 (2012) requires application of a two-part test for determining patent eligibility under section…
May 2016 Life Science Example 30: Natural Products
The claims for example 30 from the May USPTO life science examples re below. By way of background, the "Texas mint" plant as a thin liquid sap containing about 10%…
May 2016 Life Science Examples: Diagnostic claims: Example 29
The seven claims presented in example 29 are as below. According to the example, all but claim 2 are considered to be patent eligible. A couple things via way of…