'' Knight and Associates claims to be the first patent prosecution firm to attempt to
obtain utility patent protection on fictional plots.
Having just received a design patent on the device, the company is now focusing on
obtaining Utility patent rights.
Not exact matches
Before this, the general sense was that a mere scintilla of
utility was enough to
obtain a
patent.
Moreover, the specific disclosure requirements for
patents where
utility is based on sound prediction is the consideration an inventor pays for
obtaining a
patent without having proved actual
utility as at the filing date of the
patent application.
Conversion of Polish
patent applications to
utility models irrevocably closes any chances to
obtain a
patent.
Patent Prosecution (Acquisition) Cases — Successfully prosecuted and obtained hundreds of utility and design patent applications at the United
Patent Prosecution (Acquisition) Cases — Successfully prosecuted and
obtained hundreds of
utility and design
patent applications at the United
patent applications at the United States
That being said, the possibility that a
utility patent could be
obtained can not be definitively ruled out even if an invention seems quite likely to be obvious,...