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I ordered takeout food recently, and we had a mix-up at the restaurant that made me think of the US patent system, and its recent switch from a “first to invent” to a “first to [...]

You have an idea for a product, an app, or a service, and you want to pursue patent protection.  But should you assign patent rights to your company?  Or if you haven’t started a company, [...]

I’m honored to announce that I’ll be giving a patent prosecution presentation at the Boston Bar Association this evening. What is patent prosecution? Patent prosecution is the process [...]

The USPTO defines three categories of applicants and inventors: you can apply as a large entity, small entity, or micro entity.  Why does this matter?  The entity size affects the fees owed to [...]

The holiday season is here (and winter has started with the solstice, although on much of the US East Coast it doesn’t quite feel like winter… yet).  And with the holidays, of course, [...]

Star Wars: Episode VII, The Force Awakens (IMDB listing; Google search), opens tonight for most of us – the Force is strong with those who have already seen it.  Excited, I am!  (That’s an [...]

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) allows patent applicants to relatively easily apply to protect an invention in one or many countries.  Note that a PCT patent application is not an [...]

This week in patents, 6771 patents were issued by the USPTO.  Of those, three were in US Classifications that relate to data processing or computer-implemented methods, that is, something related [...]

Reflecting on Veterans Day last week, as a patent attorney, I thought about inventions and patents that have kept, and still keep, our service members safer and let them do their jobs more [...]

Hedy Lamarr was born 101 years ago today, on November 9, 1914.  While film buffs know Lamarr, born as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, for her roles in many classic films (you can see her [...]