For many inventors and businesses, the patent examination process can feel like a black box—mysterious, slow, and hard to understand. The USPTO is opening that box in their next edition of After Hours IP: Innovations on your schedule series, Tuesday, January 20, 5-6 p.m. PT (8-9 p.m. ET) for a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how patent applications …
Did you know that the global toy and game market is valued at $325 billion? Learn from USPTO and industry experts about protecting your toy or game invention tomorrow, Thursday December 18, 3-5:30 p.m. ET. A Toy’s Journey: Ideation to creation, protection to commercialization, and sales to enforcement is offered online and in person. Topics: …
Independent Inventors: Learn about the entire patent-filing process, start to finish. The USPTO offers a free fundamentals course in a three-day workshop from October 14 through 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET each day. The Stakeholder Application Readiness Training (StART) is for independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone working for or with a small …
Our youtube video, How to Prepare a Provisional Patent Application, has reached 10 thousand views! We made this video as a service to independent inventors. It is but one step in the patent process, which we covered in an earlier post. Scott Keeley, our principal, is a licensed patent agent (#74622) who enjoys working with …
There are no “international” patents. To protect intellectual property in other countries, we file foreign patent applications, but in certain jurisdictions that cover those countries, as well as individual countries. There is an international application that leads to patents in specific countries, but there is no single patent or application that protects an invention globally. …
Filing a patent application: all the steps you need to know. 1. Do a Prior-Art Search. To determine whether your invention already exists and to gauge the “state of the art,” we do a prior-art search. It’s optional, but we strongly advise it. Here’s why. 2. File a Provisional Patent Application. A provisional patent …
Before you spend all that time and money applying for a patent for that cool innovation, perhaps you’d like to determine its chances of patentability. The USPTO has a webinar series just for that. It’s called Think Like an Examiner, offering four days of workshops (with homework), from Tuesday, August 5, through Friday the 8th. …
Learn how to protect your innovation as you transition from idea to product. Join the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as they present monthly intellectual property training sessions. Held on the first Thursday of every month, these sessions cover general information about patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. They guide inventors to local …
Like professional athletes, student athletes should protect their name, image, and likeness (NIL) with a trademark. Study up on the USPTO’s name, image, and likeness basics or just visit the USPTO’s trademark basics page.
“She faced numerous thefts of her intellectual property and legal challenges to her patents and designs, but she refused to back down.” It’s 1867. You are a single woman working as a bundler at the Columbia Paper Bag Company in Springfield, Mass. And you are tired. Surely, you think, there is a better way to …