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AI and Patents: AI Lets Inventors Make Their Wishes Come True
By Robert Plotkin and Cynthia Gilbert This is a special series of articles about the impact of AI on patent protection from Blueshift IP: Software Patent Experts. This series is intended to be easy to understand and to focus on…
AI and Patents: How AI is Creating Super Inventors
By Robert Plotkin and Cynthia Gilbert This is a special series of articles about the impact of AI on patent protection from Blueshift IP: Software Patent Experts. This series is intended to be easy to understand and to focus on…
Back to the Future: Blueshift IP’s Mission for Getting Us All Back to Business
We know that your top priorities right now are keeping your business running and keeping yourself and your families and employees safe and well. Within the context of keeping your business running, we want to partner with you to put…
How to Comply with your Duty of Disclosure
Patent law has many traps for the unwary client because it is unique in many ways. I’ve outlined some of these key pitfalls in a previous blog posting to educate clients and to further minimize the risks to them. One…
3 Reasons Why You Need Patent Protection
Do you assume that your business has enough intellectual property protection because you have copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets? Did you know that by not obtaining patents you may be leaving a critical gap in your company’s intellectual property? Even…
How To Avoid The Key Patent Pitfalls
Even sophisticated high-tech companies often get tripped up by common pitfalls in the patent process, and lose critical legal protection for their innovative technology as a result. The patent process is complex and frequently changes—especially in the world of software…
Provisional Patent Applications: Myth, Reality, and Pitfalls
Filing a provisional patent application helps you to get your foot in the door by providing the earliest possible filing date and gives you a year in which to continue developing your invention and/or raise the funding necessary to make…
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…
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…
