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Patent Owners Succeeding More Often in Challenges under Alice
There’s good news for patent owners in the U.S.: more patents are surviving validity challenges decided under the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice decision. According to a recent study (subscription required), district courts are now more likely to decide that the patent owners possess…
You May be Surprised to Find Your Software is Patentable
Do you think that your company’s software isn’t patentable? You might be surprised to find out that software is patentable, and that you are leaving potentially valuable software patents on the table. We have found that many software companies believe…
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How Patent Claims Make or Break Patents – Yours and Your Competitors’
If you’ve been an inventor on a patent or read a patent, you know how long and detailed the technical description (called the “specification”) in the patent can be, and how much work goes into writing it. As important as…
Anatomy of a Successful Software Patent
Obtaining a valuable, strong, defensible, successful software patent requires not just knowledge of patent law and computer technology, but also extensive experience in how to draft every section of a patent application to maximize the likelihood that it will be…
Five Key Questions to Ask Yourself Before Seeking Patents
Anyone considering investing in patents should interrogate themselves as to their business objectives/motives as early as possible. That means really digging into the details of five key questions, “five Ws” Who are you? Whether you’re an inventor in a garage or in-house…
Benefits of our Patent Process
Our patent process is fundamentally different than that of most law firms. An analogy would be to the way in which an artist creates a statue: most say that they have a vision of the finished statue and then “release…
