In addition to basic spelling and grammatical errors, your writing choices can negatively impact the effectiveness of your defensive publication. Defensive Publication Refresher When you have an invention, you have …
Why Visibility in a Prior Art Database Matters
Your intellectual property: Give it away, give it away, give it away now If you’re a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you’re familiar with the infectious lyrics …
7 Components to a Well-Developed Defensive Publication
The human ability to constantly churn creativity, attack problems with inventive solutions, and even find solutions before we exactly identify the problem, is astounding. Brilliant concepts abound, but they must …
4 Reasons Why Defensively Publishing Your Technical Disclosure is a Sound IP Strategy
To be approved for patenting, an idea must be new, useful, and non-obvious. In terms of IP strategy, you can use the “new” criterion to your advantage. Defensive publishing, i.e., …
Do You Own Your Invention?
When you find the solution to a problem, you want to believe that you are the first, it is your idea, and you own all the rights and associated benefits.
“No Trespassing” Signs for Creations of the Mind: Why Patents are Your Most Important Assets
By: Katherine (Katie) McGuire, Esq., Registered Patent Attorney; Partner, Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP; Chair, Intellectual Property Practice Group In the past few decades, the Information Age has evolved to the …
Why Consider IP.com’s Prior Art Search Team?
By: Jeff Casavant, Senior Intellectual Property Analyst, IP.com Here’s a short graphic on just three reasons why we think our Prior Art Search Team stands out:
What Are the Benefits of Publishing Prior Art?
Defensive publishing is a cost-effective method to protect technology without applying for patents. Publishing documents that establish your innovation as “prior art” in the public domain can decrease unnecessary patent …
How Defensive Publishing Strengthens Your Patent Portfolio
Since the early 1980s, the number of patents granted on software-based inventions has increased by 1,900%, resulting in approximately 40,000 software-related patents issued annually. The frenzy behind this software patent glut …