OVERVIEW: In this case, Bimeda appeals a decision from the USPTO board of patent appeals and interferences, which affirmed the examiner’s rejection of the claims of US Patent No 6,506,400 for not meeting the requirements under 35 USC 112. The ‘400 patent discuses methods for preventing the inflammation of udder tissues in cows. The ‘400 [...]
OVERVIEW: Novozymes v. Dupont is a recent patent case that discusses if claimed subject matter in a continuation meets the requirements of 35 USC 112 if the continuation’s claimed limitations are not literally recited in the new claims. Specifically, this case discusses who “one of ordinary skilled in the art” based on technology areas. CASE [...]
Initially please review an overview of design patents (overview of design patents) and provisional patents (overview of provisional patents). To determine whether to file a design patent or a provisional/utility patent application it is helpful to understand what your invention is directed towards. If your invention is directed towards novel and new functional features that [...]
A common question I receive from inventors and decision makers at Start-ups is whether they should file a provisional patent application or a non-provisional patent application for their new invention. There are benefits and detriments to both ways of beginning the patent process for an invention, which in some industries may be more important. Below [...]
PATENT ATTORNEY – TEMPLATE SERIES: Click on the links below to access different template sections of a patent application. 1. Field of the Disclosure 2. Background 3. Summary 4. Brief Description of the Drawings 5. Form Language 6. Network Topology 7. Flow Chart 8. Sample Language for Social Network To provide a decent amount of [...]
PATENT APPLICATION TEMPLATE, SOCIAL NETWORK Simulated space module xx may be configured to host one or more virtual environments for users of client computing devices xx. As used herein, a “virtual environment” may include a virtual space, social network, one or more interactive, online community, and/or other virtual environments. A simulated space may comprise a [...]
PATENT APPLICATION TEMPLATE, FLOW CHART FIGURE 2 illustrates a method 200 for [[what patent application/invention does]]. The operations of method 200 presented below are intended to be illustrative. In some embodiments, method 200 may be accomplished with one or more additional operations not described, and/or without one or more of the operations discussed. Additionally, the [...]
PATENT ATTORNEY – SAMPLE TEMPLATE DRAFT, NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN DETAILED DESCRIPTION: Turning now to FIGURE 1, FIGURE 1 depicts one topology 100 for [[title of invention]]. Topology 100 may include one or more data sources 110, information server 120, and client device 140. The elements depicted in topology 100 may be communicatively coupled to each [...]
PATENT ATTORNEY - SAMPLE TEMPLATE DRAFT, FORM LANGUAGE IN DETAILED DESCRIPTION: [0002] In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present embodiments. It will be apparent, however, to one having ordinary skill in the art that the specific detail need not be employed to [...]
PATENT ATTORNEY - SAMPLE TEMPLATE DRAFT “BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:” [0001] Non-limiting and non-exhaustive embodiments of the present embodiments are described with reference to the following FIGURES, wherein like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout the various views unless otherwise specified. [0002] FIGURE 1 depicts a system configured to [[brief sentence of what [...]