Category: Patent Drafting
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Actor Analysis for Patent Infringement
Due Diligence for Patent[1]s – Actor Analysis[2] tells who is the likely infringer. Actor analysis is often overlooked when valuing inventions for patenting, or for valuing patent[3][4]s once they are issued. With actor analysis, we…
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A good patent is easy to read
A good patent is easy to read[1]. If you can’t understand your patent application, neither can the patent examiner. Many people tell me that they did not understand their patent application because their attorney used…
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What does a good patent application look like?
Good patents are NOT written in “legalese”. I had a telephone interview with a patent examiner a while ago and in the course of the interview, the examiner said that he really liked my patent…
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Drafting Patents for Licensing
Patents that are intended for licensing have a distinctively different feel to them and a different method of drafting than patents that protect a specific product line. Here, our intent is to protect an idea…