Patenting for Inventors

Sometimes your patent or patent application goes abandoned because you didn't respond to a rejection in time or you didn't pay the right amount fees to the patent office. What should you do? Learn the...

7 Mar 20198min

If your patent examiner keeps rejecting your application, what should you do? One option is to appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).  Learn what an appeal is, and how to do one.

1 Mar 201910min

In this bonus episode of "Patenting for Inventors," I interview Genein Letford, author, educator, and founder of Alumni360, an entrepreneurship mentoring program for college bound students.

21 Feb 201912min

There are several options for responding to a Final Office Action. One option is to file a Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Request so that your application is reviewed by additional patent examiners.  Lea...

14 Feb 20199min

There are several options for responding to a final rejection. In this episode learn how to do one of those options, called a Request for Continued Examination.

7 Feb 20196min

If the claims in your patent application have been rejected twice, you usually will receive a final office action.  Don't worry yet! "Final" does not mean final.  There are at least eight options you ...

31 Jan 201914min

You are only allowed one patent per invention, but sometimes you might get a rejection called a "Double Patenting Rejection." What are these and how do you handle them?

24 Jan 20198min

Continuation-in-Part applications are useful for when you have some additional features you want to get patent protection for, but you didn't include them in your original patent application.

17 Jan 20199min