What are Continuation Patent Applications? EP058
This episode goes over the specific type of continuing application called a continuation application. Use continuation applications to broaden your patent protection from your original application, ke...
10 Jan 20196min
What are Divisional Patent Applications? EP057
Learn what divisional patent applications are and when you should file one. Divisional patent applications are useful when the patent examiner has previously required you to split up your originally ...
3 Jan 20195min
What are Continuing Patent Applications? EP056
If you are considering filing patent applications related to an application that you already filed, then you might be interested in a continuing patent application. There are different types and you s...
27 Des 20187min
How to Respond to a Patent Application Election of Species Requirement. EP055
Learn how to respond to an election of species requirement from the patent office. An examiner will not examine your invention if you are claiming too many variations of the same thing. In this epis...
20 Des 201810min
How to Respond to a Patent Application Restriction Requirement. EP054
Learn what a patent application restriction requirement is. A patent application is only allowed to have one invention, so what are you to do if the examiner says that your patent application actuall...
16 Des 201810min
How to Amend the Patent Application Specification. EP053
Learn how to amend the patent application specification and the requirements of what to do if you have to do a substitute specification and how to mark up your application with strikethroughs, underli...
9 Des 201810min
How to Amend Patent Drawings. EP052
In this episode I go through how to amend patent drawings.
2 Des 20188min
How to Mark up Your Amended Claims. EP051
In this episode I go through the mechanics of how to mark up any claims that you have amended. Know how to properly use underlining, strikethroughs, and double brackets to tell the examiner what exac...
25 Nov 20185min
