Patents, Patent Applications, Small Business

How to Protect Your Patent and Safeguard Your IP

Adams & Reese on 5/7/2025

(A&R Vets to Ventures features a co-authored article with our friends from Data² - a veteran-owned small business that leverages advanced analytics, data science, machine learning, and AI to enable organizations to harness...more

Large Entity, Small Entity or Micro-Entity: Which Type of Patent Applicant Are You? - UPDATED 4/3/25

Fox Rothschild LLP on 4/4/2025

When applying for a patent application, certain entities are entitled to reduced USPTO filing fees. Applicants who qualify for small entity status can reduce many USPTO fees by 60%. Applicants who are micro entities can...more

Small Entity Status vs. Micro Entity Status for Patent Applications in the U.S.

International Lawyers Network on 12/7/2023

Suppose you have an inventor or applicant who asks you to file a patent application in the U.S. However, the applicant has limited financial resources for filing the patent application. Should you claim small entity status or...more

Patenting Considerations for SBIR Awardees

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. on 1/4/2021

Awardees of funding from the Small Business Innovative Research (“SBIR”) program face unique strategic questions as they plan their intellectual property development. Like all companies, SBIR awardees must decide whether to...more

USPTO Clarifies and Expands Small Entity Status Exceptions

Morgan Lewis on 12/29/2020

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on December 4 a rule change to clarify and expand exceptions to small entity status, which primarily affects the fees that the USPTO charges patent applicants. ...more

Changes to Bayh-Dole Act Regulations Impacting Ownership of Patent Rights

Goodwin on 4/11/2017

Businesses and nonprofit organizations that receive federal government funding, such as NIH, DoD or SBIR grants, are required diligently to report and elect title to inventions and patent applications that have been made with...more