As you work with your attorney to complete a non-provisional patent application for your utility, design or asexually reproducing plant-based invention, your attorney will need to conduct a thorough ...

You have an amazing, earth-shattering idea; an ingenious way to solve an old problem, or a groundbreaking new technology. Of course, you can’t patent an idea. But as soon as you’ve fleshed it out to ...

Inventors will frequently ask why they need to spend the money on a US patent search, and all too frequently believe patent searches are unnecessary. There are various iterations of this question, ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) maintains a free, searchable database that is available at http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/search/index.jsp ...

First things first: When it comes to patents, there are no guarantees. Why? Because patent law is constantly evolving. From my perspective as an entrepreneur (which is to say, someone who views ...

I frequently get questions about patent searches from independent inventors, and one of the most common questions relates to timing. They ask: “When should I do a patent search?” A reasonable question ...

Patent rights in the United States have been steadily eroding for a number of years. Decisions by the Roberts’ Supreme Court and the four-year old America Invents Act have substantially weakened the ...

Web companies are quietly amassing arsenals of search patents, as they prepare for a high-stakes war over the profitable technology that could one day control how most people get information. The ...

A flurry of recently granted patents is starting to cloud the local search space. After being granted a patent for location-based search, Local.com this morning announced the awarding of another ...

Google this week was granted its first patent by the United States Patent Office for a method of determining the relevance of Web pages in relation to search queries. The patent, which Google filed on ...