What Are The Different Types Of Patents?

What are the different types of patents which can be filed? This article explains the major patent types, and when to file which patent.

After KSR - Stronger Patents or Just Harder to Get?

Summary of consequences of recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc. et al. with the effect on strength of future patents and the effect on the difficulty in obtaining patents. Discusses the requirements of an obviousness rejection of patent claims and overcoming such a rejection.

Art and Science of patent Searching

Patent searching is both an art and a science. Consequently, search capability improves with practice. But optimum practice requires a solid foundation for those who seek to conduct searches accurately and efficiently. Identification of factors for determining when a search is needed and what types and sources of information should be searched in the process is the crucial part

Role of Knowledge Intelligence in Today's Competitive Environment

With the advent of globalization, there has been great increased in the recent few years in the knowledge management. Knowledge management involves mining and integration of huge and scattered knowledge into a single platform, to generate knowledge intelligence. Intelligence analysts are the knowledge workers most important tasks.

Electronics and Semiconductor Patents - An Evolution Scenario

In recent years, there has been an extensive boost in technological concepts related to electronics and electrical domain. Electronic engineering is a constantly changing and widening branch of technology. Electronics and semiconductor engineering is one of the largest and fastest growing industries. This growth has entailed a wide range of patent filing, all through. There has been a steady growth in electrical, electronics and semiconductor patents being filed and granted by U.S. patent office since 1996.

A Soft Introduction to Software Patents

A definition of software patent is hard and one may not find the definition on any patent office website. Software embodied in a physical computer readable medium and aiding an innovative process or machine is considered patentable. In order to obtain a software patent, the patent application has to subtly claim the software as employing or performing certain function or process and as embodied in a computer readable medium.

A Prologue to Mechanical Patents

Mechanical engineering perhaps has the oldest known inventions and patents. In fact, the word engineering is derived from a mechanical component. Mechanical engineering is a field that was conceived from natural laws of physics, where one engineers or manipulates these laws to his/her advantage. Mechanical patents non exhaustively and generally encompass utility tools invented constituting force, motion, mass, etc. It specifically encompasses all mechanical devices, contraption and interactions resulting in utilitarian instruments and apparatus, and where such interactions produce a action-reaction component that depends on the mechanism and nature of interaction. Further, all manufacturing processes, for example, metal working and treatment, printing, textile manufacturing, etc, are regarded under mechanical patents. Automobiles fall under mechanical patenting category, although one cannot be sure where a time travel machine, if invented, will be categorized. Of course, most mechanical engineering fields involve extensive use of computational and mathematical tools, physical laws and equations, but these fall under a different patenting category altogether.

Design Patents

A design patent may be useful in your business. This article breaks down what a Design patent is. The type of patent we are covering in this article is the design patent. Like the name suggests, a design patent is used to grant the inventor rights to how an invention actually looks. The design patent is unique because it is only given when the inventor has created something that is new, and it only protects the appearance of the invention. Therefore, design patents are only concerned with the aesthetics of the invention, and not how it is constructed or the materials that compose it. Usually the design patent protects the inventor for a period of fourteen years. The design patent specifically protects the way in which the invention appears. To be approved for a design patent, the Patent ....

Patent Laws Defined, Part II

United States Code – Title 35 Part Two Part two of the United States code on obtaining a patent is quite lengthy. It starts off describing the different criteria that must be met by the invention before it can be patented. This section of Title 35 also deals with the various types of patents available, along with how to submit an application to the Patent Office. Part two of the patent laws also contains information on the guidelines used in assessing your application, and the process involved in issuing the patent. United States Code – Title 35 Part Three This section of the United States Code on patents addresses the legal issues associated with patents. It describes the patent laws involved in the ....

Why Patent? Part II

What You Can Patent The USPTO have established a broad area of things on which it will consider granting patents. It is possible to patent anything that you have invented or designed, a new plant you have found, a business method, or an improvement of a previous invention. Items that have historically been granted patents are usually: • Items which are new to the general public. • Items which are considerably different than any other item which has received a patent. • Items which are practical. These are the types of inventions that the USPTO will generally look favorably on. Think of all the items used on a daily ....

California Child Support Laws, Golden State

Both parents have a legal duty to provide financial support for their children. In California, as in most other states, the court may order either or both parents to make regular child support payments that cover a child's living and medical expenses.

Health Insurance Rules and Regulations for Small Businesses in California

This article explains the rules and regulations for small business health insurance for California small businesses.

Colorado Child Support

Information on Colorado child support laws such as applying for, establishing, calculation, enforcing, and making changes to child support laws.