Speed to market is paramount today. Whether you are a creative person, inventor, entrepreneur, startup, medium-sized enterprise, or Fortune 500 company, there’s no doubt that filing intellectual ...

Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual ...

Attorneys Dan Altman and Vlad Teplitskiy authored, "When and Where to File Patent Applications," which was published on the Maple Business Council website. Excerpt: "In general, a patent is only valid ...

Imagine you have developed a groundbreaking product that is going to revolutionize your industry. You do not want your competitors to copy the product. At the very least, you want them to pay you ...

I am frequently asked by inventors whether they should file for a patent before licensing their invention? Some even ask whether they should first obtain a patent before they submit the invention to a ...

A provisional application is not examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and therefore it never itself issues into a patent. On its own and without any further action, filing a ...

For centuries, entrepreneurs in the United States relied on a unique patenting system that granted protection to ideas and inventions from the moment of creation. The system, known as “first to invent ...

A young inventor participating in Camp Invention, ran by the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame and United States Patent and Trademark Office. Credit: United States Patent and Trademark Office “As I ...

I am frequently asked by inventors whether they should file a patent application before seeking to license their invention. Some even ask whether they should first obtain a patent before they submit ...