This is a suggested Seven Step Strategy for conducting preliminary searches of U.S. patents and published applications using free online resources of the USPTO and its bi-lateral partner EPO (European Patent Office). Patent and Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs) (www.uspto.gov/ptrc) are available nationwide to provide training on this Seven Step Strategy. The seven step strategy [...]
It’s amazing how quickly legal costs can add up. If you’re running startup, it’s possible that your legal costs are second and third highest among all you expenses. And just like medical bill, they always seem to be higher than imagined. So what can control your legal costs ? Here are 10 ideas that [...]
Artificial Intelligence is a way of making a computer, a computer-controlled robot, or a software think intelligently, in the similar manner the intelligent humans think. AI is accomplished by studying how human brain thinks, and how humans learn, decide, and work while trying to solve a problem, and then using the outcomes of this [...]
Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Facebook gradually added support for [...]
The credibility of the American patent system is threatened. It needs to be restored after years of decline under serial assaults from eligibility decisions of the Supreme Court and the PTO’s manner of implementation of Inter Partes Reviews mandated by the America Invents Act. Investors and inventors are fleeing the damaged system in favor [...]
Part of the paper’s including survey result from both lay individuals and IP professionals who answered the question. What is the purpose of Intellectual Property Right? The vast majority of IP Professional indicated the incentive justification of IP right. The potential for strong right rights sets out a carrot that encourages innovation. Law individual, [...]
