“Refiling a provisional is just a bad idea when you can, for a few hundred dollars more, keep hold of that earliest priority date and continue on the path to obtaining a patent.” The question that we ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. You have a great idea for an invention, and you think it is ...

That's shortsighted, since patent protection is useful in our litigious society. For start-ups, filing for patents may be a luxury when the issue at hand is survival. But there is a way around the ...

Brent Fairbanks is a Primary Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with a focus on data processing of sensor measurements. He serves as an Assistant Outreach ...

If used correctly, continuation applications can offer a host of benefits within a broad patent portfolio, says Bryce Bailey at Baker McKenzie Practitioners often consider continuation applications to ...