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Category: Patents

The official United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Facebook page promises to deliver the latest USPTO news, photos and videos. Through Facebook the USPTO will directly connect with the

Tweet of the week Thanks to Innovator, Consultant, Strategist, Emerging Media, Social TV, Canadian Expatriate Richard Kastelein for tweeting @expathos this week about a Sony patent application that may give

What Inventors Need to Know… Most independent inventors want to license their invention to a retailer. Usually an inventor does not have the experience nor the money to market, manufacture

The Buffalo Law Journal May Special Report focusing on Intellectual Property is now available. Thanks to Matt Chandler and the staff at Buffalo Law Journal for allowing me to author

What Inventors Need to Know… The “IP.com Global Patent Search” tool may be your answer if you’re looking for a free and easy way to search for prior art patents.

Is the United States patent system broken and does it need to be fixed? Can our governmental leaders fix the patent system through legislation? Patent reform legislation has been introduced

How do you protect your intellectual property? What is intellectual property? Is a special sandwich that you make better than anybody else intellectual property? Imagine you are the owner of

What is happening with regard to the Patent Reform Act of 2010? Recently I asked this and other questions to first term Congressman Chris Lee, who represents New York’s 26th

What Inventors Need to Know… Inventors often ask me “can I get a provisional patent?” But there is no such thing as a “Provisional patent.” A provisional patent application is