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The Road to Patent Registration – Part II
The road to patent registration can be long and confusing – especially for a first-time inventor. In Part I, we reviewed the first five steps: Step
Provisional Patent Buys You a Year … Well, Not Really
When you have an invention, and you are not ready to file a complete non-provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark
Back-to-School Inventions
We’re not just lawyers and inventors, we’re people – and it only takes one letter to change PATENT to PARENT. As many of us are dealing with the
The Road to Patent Registration – Part I
The road to patent registration can be long and confusing – especially for a first-time inventor. Below is Part I of a broad overview of the major
Are Patent Applications Secret?
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Taking Patent Litigation Out of Texas: The Supreme Court’s TC Heartland Decision
For the last two decades, patent holders – many of them “trolls” – have favored suing accused infringers in the Eastern District of Texas, even those