From the Experts

The USPTO has specific and unique practices for formal documents. Understanding these practices and especially the requirements on signatures can save you a lot of time.Read More

The USPTO has announced significant fee increases for your patent applications to take effect in 2025. Many changes are cost adjustments to cover inflation, but others are designed to change your behaviour.Read More

Three concerns for construction inventions and what we recommend to protect your inventions.Read More

Many organizations have patent notices and many are wrong. In some cases having the wrong patent notice creates a liability. Since these warnings are easy to write and place, most organizations should use them.Read More

Patents are the go-to method for protecting inventions but you have alternatives such as trade secrets, defensive disclosures, and utility models. Also consider filing a patent application with delayed examination.Read More

The on-sale bar in US patent law starts when the product is on sale even if the process to make the product is secret. This has an effect on the IP strategy of many companies.Read More

Intellectual property (IP) scams make use of public information make the scammers seem legit, when really they are just targeting individuals and businesses trying to protect their IP rights. Protect yourself from these scams, always verify the legitimacy of any message you receive regarding your IP rights.Read More

We are often asked about the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system which offers you a unified procedure for filing patent applications in many places. Whether this snooze button used to delay further patent applications is right for you depends.Read More

The USPTO has a program that allows first-time inventors to get your patent examined faster.Read More