In
its latest patent application, released by China's State Intellectual Property Office on Tuesday, the...
PayPal is gearing up to improve upon current cryptocurrency transaction speeds with
their latest patent application for...
PayPal is gearing up to improve upon current cryptocurrency transaction speeds with
their latest patent application for an «Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System.»
While
the latest patent application sounds interesting, it's the latest in a string of virtual home button patents the company has filed.
In
its latest patent application,...
The timing of Google's
latest patent application relating to smart contact lenses that integrate glucose testing couldn't have been any better.
As always, Patently Mobile will continue to cover Google's
latest patent applications regarding this technology as it becomes available.
The Verge also noted during their live coverage of Google I / O that Google introduced a new game profile and ways to save games in the cloud which segues to one of Google's
latest patent applications.
Not exact matches
Because of the possibility of a
patent interference, it is wise to document all invention - related activities in a signed and witnessed inventor's notebook so that you can
later prove the date the invention was conceived and the steps you took to build and test the invention or quickly file a
patent application.
It doesn't commit you to a formal
patent application, and doesn't result in a
patent, but it does allow you to claim your invention so that you can do a full
patent application later.
Zhang filed
later but managed to expedite his
application and was actually awarded the
patent.
Fast Company's investigation brought up circumstantial evidence linking an encryption
patent application filed by Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry on 15 August 2008, and the bitcoin.org domain name which was registered 72 hours
later.
The policy — in the form of first Office Actions on a series of
applications for
patents on expressed sequence tags, ESTs — could greatly complicate basic gene therapy research by substantially allowing
patents for small sequences of a gene that may
later be used by the
patent holder to corner ownership and uses of entire genes.
A
patent application for the DNA vaccine was filed with the U.S.
patent office by the CDC and the National Institutes of Health in early 2006 and with the World Intellectual Property Organization some 18 months
later.
Fan's team recently filed a
patent application for the
latest advance.
For example, the long - standing practice of filing a series of provisional
patent applications that could
later be combined into a singe utility
patent application appears to be even more favored under the FITF system.
The first interference proceeding was initiated by Geron Corporation (original owner of the Asterias stem cell
patents at issue) in
late 2009, and a subsequent interference proceeding was declared by the USPTO in
late 2011 in view of a Geron
application and the same ViaCyte
patent.
Interesting, according to WIPO's
latest report on IP filings, Canadian applicants filed more
patent applications in the United States (13,493) than Canadian applicants filed in Canada (4,078).
If it's accepted, you'll need file the full
patent application later within 12 months.
The TPP requires countries to provide
patent term extensions (sometimes referred to as «
patent term restoration») to compensate for delays arising in two scenarios: unreasonable delays in the marketing approval process and unreasonable delays in
patent prosecution amounting to more than five years from the
application date or three years from the request for examination, whichever is
later, subject to certain exclusions.
Alternatively, the drafter may wish to purposefully not specify certain combinations so that these can be protected in a
later application as a selection invention, with a
later filing date extending the
patent lifetime for the combination.
Of all people involved in the filing, prosecution, grant and enforcement of
patent rights, it could be argued that none are as important as the drafters of the «first filing» (i.e. the first
patent application for an invention, relied on to establish the date of the invention via a priority claim in
later foreign or International
patent applications, the «foreign filings»).
Then, after I recommend the filing of an international
patent application (known as a PCT
application, but will get to that
later), my clients frequently ask: «wait, I have to file for an international
patent application and it's not even a
patent recognized around the world?»
Prosecution history — The written record of proceedings between the applicant and the PTO, including the original
patent application and
later communications between the PTO and applicant.
The plaintiff in the challenge had been issued
patents in the
late 1970s based on an
application from 1959, but on the eve of jury trial in 1982, the case had been continued pending a reexamination under the new statute.
Case law has imposed a requirement that an invention's usefulness be demonstrated or soundly predicted at the time of
application, rather than at some
later point; though utility of the subject - matter is a requirement of
patent validity, a patentee is not required to disclose the utility of the invention to fulfill the requirements of s. 2.
Your
patent term can be extended by up to one year, since the twenty - year
patent term is still measured from the
later non-provisional
application filing date.
Users simply enter the number of their
patent and their name into the Patent Plaque application and seconds later, it generates an icon suitable for online di
patent and their name into the
Patent Plaque application and seconds later, it generates an icon suitable for online di
Patent Plaque
application and seconds
later, it generates an icon suitable for online display.
And
late last year, Apple filed a
patent application for «an electronic device [that] may have a flexible portion that allows [it] to be folded.»
A year
later, on February 6, 1959, a
patent application for «solid circuit made of germanium» was filed.
Late last month the U.S.
Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Microsoft that revealed their work on a Windows smart
Patent & Trademark Office published a
patent application from Microsoft that revealed their work on a Windows smart
patent application from Microsoft that revealed their work on a Windows smartwatch.
The US
Patent & Trademark Office recently published a patent application from Sony revealing the company's latest advances in a future head - tracking he
Patent & Trademark Office recently published a
patent application from Sony revealing the company's latest advances in a future head - tracking he
patent application from Sony revealing the company's
latest advances in a future head - tracking headset.
Filed
late last week, the United Stated
Patent and Trademark Office has now published Samsung's
application, which is unsurprisingly intended to be used for a smartphone.
Late last week, the U.S.
Patent & Trademark office published another patent application from the Cupertino
Patent & Trademark office published another
patent application from the Cupertino
patent application from the Cupertino giant.
The
application is the
latest from Mastercard, which has filed several
patents in the past few years.
Apple began developing the iPad in 2002 and filed its first
patent application for a tablet two years
later.
The South Korean tech giant originally applied to
patent the unconventional device in
late September of 2016 and wasn't asked to revise its
application at any point during the 18 - month review process.
The
patent application was filed by Samsung in June and published by the USPTO a few months
later.
Although the
patent application was filed in February this year, the ideas described are based on previous filings by STMicroelectronics» fingerprint business, which was
later merged with AuthenTec, and ultimately became Apple's intellectual property.