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How many times have you been standing in a store in front of an item you want to buy, only to take out your phone to check how much it is on Amazon.com? It’s no secret that brick and mortar retail stores have been on the decline for some time with the ease (and...
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Samsung infringed a number of design patents owned by Apple and awarded Apple a $399 million judgment based off of the profits made by Samsung. The battle between the smartphone giants did not end there, however....
You’ve invented something unique that you are really proud of. Before telling everyone about your invention, you know that you should likely look into “patenting” it. Did you know that there are different types of patents you can apply for? For...
With the start of the NFL season upon us, it’s a good time to take a look at some of the more recent football related patents and patent applications that have been issued or published. Wilson Sporting Goods Co. has applied for a patent on an American style...
Technically, the answer is yes. Is it likely? Probably not. Another, and perhaps better question you should be asking yourself is whether or not you actually want to pursue patent protection. Is a recipe patentable? In order to be patentable, a...
A utility patent is what most people are referring to when they say “I want to patent this!” It may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful...
A provisional patent application acts as a placeholder for a later filed non-provisional patent application. It will never get examined nor will it issue as a patent. What it will do for you is give you a year from the date you file it to file a utility...
You just bought that fancy new smartphone and talked yourself out of buying a...
I recently saw a commercial for the 2012 Mercedes Benz E-Class which...
