Kintera, a company in San Diego that leases software that helps nonprofit organizations raise money online, has submitted 13 patent applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The ...
“Unfortunately, not nearly enough individuals and companies are seeking design patent protection. In 2019, for example, there were 46,847 design patent applications filed, which represents 7.01% of ...
Early this spring, in Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. v. Promega, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed a district court opinion on the validity of an issued patent 1. The court ...
On May 6, 2016, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released new life science examples on subject matter eligibility (Examples 28-32, consecutively numbered after the previously released USPTO ...
The patent system is a system that grants patent rights that can be used exclusively for a certain period to protect inventors such as technology, systems, equipment. In order to obtain a patent right ...
The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...
Crafting a camera with a large sensor and bright lens into something that fits into a pocket isn’t an easy feat – which is one of the reasons why the Ricoh GR III remains popular even more than five ...
Friends often ask me “JD, what can you patent?” knowing I am a patent attorney. I explain that Section 101 of the patent laws (35 U.S.C. 101) states that you can get a patent on “any new and useful ...