The Patent Box: Searchable Image File Wrapper Documents
IFW Insight is a web-based application for searching, sharing and collaborating on US Patent Image File Wrapper (IFW) documents, which are also commonly referred to as “File History” documents. The IFW...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Things New Patent Practitioners Should Know
Wherever we go we always get a number of individuals who are currently in law school, have recently graduated law school or are engineers or scientists looking to change careers. During one of the...
View ArticlePatent Prosecution Nuances: The General Authorization
Of course, as is virtually inescapable at the USPTO, with every general rule there come exceptions. For example, according to 37 CFR 1.311(b), an authorization to charge the issue fee (37 CFR 1.18) to...
View ArticleSurprisingly Short Patent Claims in Published Applications
But there are no doubt some bizarre patent applications that have published over the years, such as a method of walking through walls like a ghost. See Knowing When You Have Too Much Time on Your...
View ArticleThe Advantages of Enacting a Patent Box Regime
The exact terms of a patent box will vary depending on what the drafter is trying to promote. For example, the tax preference could require that the profits be derived only from a patent secured in...
View ArticleUSPTO to issue Apple patents for traffic data system, antenna and curing...
On October 27th, Apple will be issued a patent for a technology that analyzes a person’s travel plans to provide them with potential points of interest, laid out within U.S. Patent Application No....
View ArticlePatent Quality Metrics: Finding Reliable Metrics Linked to Patent Value
We need to ask ourselves: what are the defining features of a “filler patent”? At least two things stand out. First, “filler patents” go through more rounds of prosecution than other patents. Secondly,...
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