The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) offers free resources for inventors. These include application assistance; education and training; help appealing or fixing an issue; and other services that support independent patent and trademark filers. As a patent agency, we have noticed big disparities in inventorship, so we were happy to learn about the …
A patent search is a multi-step process. Here at Keeley DeAngelo, we use Espacenet, Google Patents, and the USPTO’s new Patent Public Search (PPS) tool. The PPS user interface requires some learning, and the USPTO has been offering repeated trainings since it rolled out its new tool last year. The next training, on April 18 …
The USPTO offers a free program for under-resourced entrepreneurs called the Patent Pro-Bono Program. Learn about it in a virtual presentation on April 12 from 9 am — 2 pm ET. The presentation will cover how to access government resources for starting and maintaining a successful business. Leaders in the intellectual property (IP) and small-business …
Need some happy news? We were so inspired by this. Overcoming ten major cancer surgeries as well as an incarceration, Aisha McCain emerged an inventor/entrepreneur who now holds multiple patents in medical innovations and focuses her work on service to others. As a young kid, Aisha would go with her mother to visit nursing homes …
… but she still does 70% of the work. Just kidding. Happy International Women’s Day from the boss.
A common misconception is that having a trademark means that one legally owns a particular word or phrase and can prevent others from using it. However, one doesn’t have rights to the word or phrase in general, but rather only to how that word or phrase is used with their specific goods or services. Learn …
Innovate, elevate, empower: Connecting the entrepreneur to the innovation ecosystem is the USPTO’s Black entrepreneurship program to be offered Thursday, February 22, from 1-4:30 p.m. CT. The free program will be offered virtually and in person at the T-REX Building in St. Louis, Missouri. The workshop aims to help entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and inventors protect …
Congratulations to our client Chuck Keegan for his patent #11813516: Apparatus for Transport, Storage and Lifting of Sporting Equipment. Time to hit the slopes! The TRU-Kii is for transporting, storing and lifting ski equipment. It carries snowboards, skis, poles, boots and other sporting equipment, and easily folds and mounts to a vehicle hitch, or to …
Are you a first-time patent application filer and unsure where to start in the patent-filing process? The USPTO is offering a three-day workshop on the fundamentals of the patent application process, starting today, through 1/25, 9 am — 4pm. The Stakeholder Application Readiness Training (StART), for independent inventors and entrepreneurs, will teach how to: Safeguard …
Congratulations to our client Robert Monteith for his Fluid Turbine Rotor Blade. This spherical rotor blade enhances flow through the center of the array, resulting in rotational force on a downwind blade and directing fresh air into the bypass flow. A combination of holes and a deflector surface generates vortices as updraft flow passes through …