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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Issues Notice Regarding Certain Filing Receipts Issued Between March and October 2022

Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice advising Applicants to review filing receipts issued between March 2022 and mid-October 2022 to confirm that the granted foreign filing license notification has...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Delays Transition to DOCX (Again)

On December 29, 2022, to the relief of many practitioners and applicants, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office delayed the effective date of its controversial incentivized transition to DOCX format for patent application...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Considerations for Protecting your Invention with Provisional Patent Applications

Since the U.S. patent law switched to the first-inventor-to-file system in 2013, provisional applications have become more popular as the initial step for emerging companies to protect their inventions. Provisional...more

BakerHostetler

How to Protect and Clear Your Medical Device During Development

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Partner Hussein Akhavannik breaks down specific patent protection and clearance strategies for each stage of medical device development, from concept and design to the manufacturing and sale....more

Kilpatrick

USPTO Announces COVID-19 Provisional Application Pilot Program

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a new COVID-19 Provisional Application Pilot Program (PAPP) on Wednesday, September 16, 2020. The USPTO will defer the provisional application filing fees for up...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

To File or Not File Provisional Patent Applications – Part 2: The Cons: IP Law Bulletin

In Part 1 of this post, I discussed various advantages of provisional patent applications, which are a growingly popular initial filing option for applicants seeking patent protection. These advantages include: establishing...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

What Rights Will I Lose if I Pitch My Invention to Investors Before I File a Patent Application?

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Did you know that the individual often credited with popularizing karaoke did not reap the financial rewards of his invention to the extent possible? It's true—Japanese musician Daisuke Inoue invented karaoke in Kobe, Japan...more

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Provisional Patent Applications Versus Utility Patent Applications

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Provisional applications were introduced in the United States in the Inventor’s Protection Act of 1995. The purpose was to facilitate a quick filing, if necessary, to establish a priority filing date and salvage potential...more

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