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After a patent is granted, you still need to take a few steps to keep it alive and enforceable. In this episode, Robert Plotkin, a software patent attorney and co-founder of the law firm Blueshift IP explains the proactive and…

Receiving a Notice of Allowance for your patent application is only the beginning of the end of examination of the application. Several additional decisions and actions need to be taken before your patent application will be granted as a patent. In…

It is normal for your patent application to be rejected at first. In most cases, this signals the start of the negotiation process with the patent office. In this episode, Robert Plotkin, a software patent attorney and co-founder of the…

A common complaint among companies and people filing for patents is that the examination process takes too long. In this episode, Cynthia Gilbert, a software patent attorney and co-founder of the law firm Blueshift IP explains how you can accelerate…

An international patent application makes it possible to protect your intellectual property in markets outside the US. In this episode, Robert Plotkin, a software patent attorney and co-founder of the law firm Blueshift IP explains how to approach international patent…

A provisional patent application is a kind of scaled-down patent application that can be prepared more quickly and is less expensive than a full patent application. In this episode, Cynthia Gilbert, a software patent attorney and co-founder of the law…

Patents cover a company’s most cutting-edge innovations, often months or years before those innovations go to market. In this episode, Robert Plotkin and Cynthia Gilbert, software patent attorneys and co-founders of the law firm Blueshift IP,  set the stage for…

This four-part series is all about artificial intelligence and understanding the patentability of AI innovations. In the first three episodes, we looked at how artificial intelligence can create super inventors that solve more problems in less time, how AI is…

In the first two episodes of this series, we discussed how artificial intelligence can create super inventors that solve more problems in less time, and how AI is enabling them to make their wishes come true. Now it’s time to…

In our first episode of this series on understanding the patentability of AI innovations, Cynthia Gilbert discussed how artificial intelligence can create super inventors that solve more problems in less time. Today, in our second episode, Robert Plotkin – a software…