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Streamline Your IP Capturing Process in Three Steps
The ability to create and protect intellectual property (IP) has become paramount for tech companies aiming to stay ahead of the curve. This is possible when there is an effort to harness the full potential of the company’s innovation. Often, the challenge is getting...
Navigating Your Intellectual Property Budget: A Guide for In-House Counsel
First seen on Forbes Business Council In today's highly competitive and innovation-driven landscape, intellectual property (IP) has become a critical asset. As an attorney and founder of an intellectual property law firm, I see IP typically fall under one or more of...
How to Protect Your Patent Internationally
When an innovative new idea comes to you, it’s understandable that you want to protect it around the world. However, the rights granted to U.S. patent holders only extend throughout the territory of the United States. The same concept applies to other countries,...
Patent Term Adjustment (PTA)
Are you entitled to patent term adjustment? For patents granted after June 8, 1995, the patent clock begins to run starting the day of the effective filing date. However, while patent applicants can ensure maximum lifespan of their patents by avoiding delays in...
Keeping Your Patent Alive: Maintenance Fees
Finally, you did it! Your patent was allowed and you paid your issue fee. Now what? This means that you can move forward with actually developing your product while knowing you have legal protection for your intellectual property. While this can be an incredibly...
The Importance of Revenue Patents
Patent attorneys talk a lot about protecting your brand and your innovation, but what about protecting the entirety of your business? The conception of innovation protection with a registered patent is widely known and practiced. Patent attorneys are highly skilled at...
Filing Your Provisional Patent Application
You have a new, innovative idea that just came to you and you are excited to share it with the world. You don’t have all the details laid out yet, but you still want to ensure that your idea is protected from its fruition. If you’re in these early stages of the...
How to Get Money to Fund Your Patent
Realizing you have an innovative idea to share with the world is the first step in starting your business venture. The next step is ensuring that your idea, also known as your intellectual property, becomes patented. This means that only you have the right to make,...
How to File a Non-Provisional Patent Application
Technological innovations in the 21st century have increased in leaps and bounds. Every day, enterprising and daring innovators solve problems in novel and ingenious ways. The United States is a powerhouse of innovation and scientific discovery. The foundation of this...










