What is a patent post-grant supplemental reexamination? Once your patent has been issued, sometimes you might want to have the Patent Office take a second a look to see if it really should have been i

There are some tricky situations when it comes to the absolute final time for you to submit a document to the Patent Office. Is the final deadline based on the time zone you're in? Based on the time z

If you disclose your product or sell it before you have a patent application on file, you may be barred from getting a patent due to the on-sale bar doctrine. But what if you have a secret METHOD, lik

In this episode I go over Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) terms. If someone comes up with a patent for a technology, and that technology becaus

A new treaty was adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization about using knowledge and resources from indigenous people. This may have an effect on drug patents, where the initial knowledg

There is a new standard for determining whether a design is obvious (and not patentable). The "old" rigid test called the Rosen-Durling test has been supplanted by a more flexible approach under the

In this episode I go over a doctrine in patent law called the "Printed Matter Doctrine." You generally can't get a patent on something if the only difference is that you provided some written instruct

In this episode of the "Patenting for Inventors Podcast" I discuss why I get excited when I see a phone call coming from the 571 area code. Usually it means a patent examiner is calling me to make an

Your patent application can be rejected because your so-called invention is "obvious." But how is obviousness determined? What's the difference between "prior art" that can be cited to reject your inv