Is My Idea Too Broad? Patent Applications and Your Invention
The perfect patent application lies in a sweet spot of breadth. For your patent to offer optimum protection, it must be narrow enough to gain the USPTO’s approval but also broad enough that it’s difficult for someone to design around your patent and become a competitor.
Congress Opts-in to Allowing ISPs to Sell Consumer Data
Congressional Republicans voted Tuesday to repeal FCC rules preventing internet service providers (ISPs) from selling your browsing history to third parties. Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate passed the same legislation, which leaves the final step”President Trump’s signing of the bill. The Trump Administration has already indicated that the President will sign off on the partisan […]
Life After Brexit Part Two: Implications on the Unified Patent Court Agreement
Innovators are attempting to determine what to do with their European filing strategies with Brexit becoming more of a reality each day. As laid out in my first post on the subject, the availability of the European Patent Convention (EPC) post-Brexit will continue to make the normal filing methods through the European Patent Office (EPO) […]
Blackbird V. Netflix: Is This Patent Troll for Reel?
On February 1, 2017, Blackbird Technologies, a company based out of Boston; Chicago; and Concord, Massachusetts; filed suit against Los Gatos, California-based Netflix, Inc. in Delaware federal court for patent infringement. Blackbird, a company that does not create software, purchased the patent in question from a prior patent holder. The founders of Blackbird, Wendy Verlander […]
The Book on Patenting: Is My Idea Novel?
To meet the USPTO’s standard of novelty during the patent application process, your invention has to be different than all others that have come before it. If your invention has been publicly disclosed or sold anywhere in the world, it isn’t patentable. But don’t get discouraged! Your concept can be similar to an existing product […]
Life After Brexit Part 1: Current EPO Filings and Community Trademarks
On June 26, 2015, 52% of the voting public in the United Kingdom told the European Union that they needed some distance in what is referred to as Brexit. The question facing many businesses is, how does this affect our intellectual property filing strategy going forward? The most simple answer is “not much” in the […]
