PATENTS

We go through spurts. Sometimes we publish more often to the blog and then we don’t publish anything for a long while.

The heyday of the blog was back in 2006-2007.  Much of the advice from back then is still good BUT readers want new content.  And they want it to be interesting.

So we begin again.  […]

Only this morning, I received a comment on a blog post suggesting that the information contained in our articles be turned into video presentations.  Coincidentally, we have been working on this very thing!  Enclosed below is our first effort: an animation created at xtranormal.com.  This website allows you to take any printed text and turn […]

When most people come to us with the desire to obtain a patent, they are interested in obtaining a utility patent.  Utility patents allow an inventor to protect the functional advantages of a particular machine, article of manufacture, composition or process.  In this sense utility patents are […]

Originally Posted 1/15/08 

For those like me who before today were unaware of this principle derived from the teachings of a 14th-century Fraciscan friar, Occam’s Razor goes something like this:

All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best

As recently outlined in the Patently-O blog, this solution was recently applied by U.S. District Court Judge William […]

Originally Posted  10/11/07

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently ruled an inventor’s patents were uneforceable: Nilssen v. Osram Sylvania. Why? Because the inventor wrote, applied, and dealt with the Patent Trademark Office (PTO) on an individual, pro se, basis. Now, not everyone who prosecutes their own patent applications with the […]

Originally Posted 8/14/07

Way back on April 19th of this year, I wrote about the potential for patent reform occuring this year, and stating my case for why I was against it (http://www.lld-law.com/2007/04/will-patent-reform-occur-this-year.html#links). Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a commentary article on the Patent Reform Act of 2007. Although I missed this article, I […]