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When you’ve applied for a patent, your patent application will often get a final rejection. This is a misleading term: it is the second rejection in the course of patent prosecution, after [...]

The ordinary course of patent examination is slow.  Typically, it takes two to three years, or more, to have a patent application allowed, or to receive a final rejection from the USPTO.  For [...]

Design patents protect the ornamental appearance of an object.  With a design patent application, you can protect the shape of the object, the surface ornamentation of the object, or both.  A [...]