This is the second part of the two-part blog on the process for obtaining a patent.  An excellent flowchart describing this process was introduced in the first article and the flowchart is reproduced here. Steps 1 through 8 of the flowchart were discussed in part 1 of this two-part blog.  You can find the real […]

This is the first part of two-part IP/patent blog series, in which I discuss the process for obtaining a patent.  An excellent flowchart describing this process appears on the USPTO site, http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/index.jsp and it is reproduced here. Although the chart looks daunting, most of the first 6-7 steps involve planning/basic decisions and the last two […]

There is no such thing as an international patent. In previous blogs, we discussed patent procedures in the US. The title of this blog already hints that filing a patent in the US alone does NOT give the inventor patent protection in another country.  Years ago, patent protection in another country was not a concern […]