You can point to certain claim features not shown or suggested in the cited combination and/or argue how it would not be obvious to combine the prior art references. Conduct an Examiner Interview before you respond to a Patent Office Action Though I’m a big fan of talking to patent ...
How Do I Get a Patent? To get a patent, you need to make sure your idea is patentable, which requires that your invention is fully developed and that no one else has already patented it, and then file an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which can...
If you changed your name to your spouse's name when you married and had a new married name, you might want to change your name back to your maiden name (also called a premarital name) if you get divorced. You are not required to do so, however. If you have a child, you might wa...
Trump traded his trademark suit for a bright-orange vest that resembled those worn by sanitation workers when he arrived Wednesday evening in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and declared that “250 million Americans are not garbage.” The backstory, if you’re struggling to keep up: Trump ...
Because of the novelty of these types of suits, many creatives have limited options at their disposal: Use tools like Nightshade to prevent their work from being used by AI models. Submit model training opt-out forms, likeOpenAI’s. Take legal ...
And, just as open-plan spaces signaled the demise of the private office, hot desking may be hastening the decline of the personal workstation. [1] The Pros and Cons of Hot Desking Settling down at a different desk each day gives people from different teams and departments the chance to ...
To identify the patents that were developed for environmental innovation, we followed the definition of Environmentally Sound Technology (EST) provided by the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO). Based on this, we first counted the number of EST patents filed by a firm in a given year...
The impact of the deindexing bug does appear to be measurable, although we can argue about how "big" 4% is. For something as consequential as sites falling out of Google rankings, 4% is quite a bit, but the long-term impact for most sites should be minimal. For now, there's not ...
The attorneys dismissed criticism of the PAO’s Dengvaxia work as “personal attacks” and defended the agency’s methods and forensic findings, saying they were confident they would prevail in court. They argue they have seen evidence—the autopsied bodies—that PAO’s many critics have not and...
Many argue that the USPTO’s position is unjustifiable as a matter of public policy. Making it easier to infringe the trademarks of state-sanctioned businesses does not advance the purposes of the CSA, and it directly undermines a key goal of trademark law, which is to pr...