If you have never requested examination of a U.S. patent application, you may want to reconsider. In the past, you could request expedited examination for very limited circumstances, all of which required the filing of a petition. The time to act on this petition could often be longer than waiting in line with everyone else.…
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Darin’s Patent Application
Is it possible for an inventor to prepare and file his or her own patent application and save thousands of dollars? Because I am a seasoned patent attorney, it is easy for me to write patent applications and shephard them through the patent office. But I also have an experienced team behind me to take…
Why Does the Patent Office Have an Non-obviousness Requirement?
What is startling about today’s patent system is that the vast majority of great inventions of the last two centuries would not be patentable under our current system. This is primarily because today we give patents to only those ideas that are so-called “truly inventive”. In other words, coming up with a new idea doesn’t…