If you’ve ever overheard water-cooler banter about patents, chances are it was about utility patents, the most common kind of patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...

The utility patent application covers what most people refer to as an invention; namely devices, methods, compounds and software, for example. From this point forward we will limit our discussion ...

If you come to a patent attorney with a provisional that you filed pro se or used a cheap online service and ask the attorney to file the utility, you may already be behind the eight ball.

The decree implementing the PACTE Act of May 22, 2019, on the creation of a provisional patent application and the evolution of the utility certificate was passed on January 8, 2020, and published ...

The USPTO issued new guidelines for determining obviousness in utility patent applications in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in KSR v. Teleflex. In it's announcement, the office also ...

Generally speaking, the term of a utility patent on an application filed on or after June 8, 1995 is 20 years measured from the U.S. filing date, while the term of a design patent is 15 years ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2006--Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (OTC: PWRM), announced today that it has filed for a utility patent that encompasses multiple blood serum protein biomarkers ...

Patent applicants in the United States have long enjoyed the benefits of filing an international utility patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Within the last few years ...

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The application draws from the results of a recently completed double-blind, placebo-controlled, canine study, published in Veterinary Medicine and Science which demonstrated that Pulsed Short ...