Patenting for Inventors

Learn how to speed up your patent application examination using the Patent Prosecution Highway. If you have allowable claims in a foreign patent or in a PCT application, you can get your application m...

19 Nov 20198min

Sometimes your attorney arguing to the patent examiner that your invention is patentable isn't enough, and the examiner might say that your attorneys arguments aren't supported by facts. When this hap...

16 Nov 20198min

In this bonus episode of "Patenting for Inventors," I interview Eric Rose, founder and CEO of Pinnacle Product Innovation, Inc.  Eric is a product innovation and management consultant who provides ent...

7 Nov 201920min

How do you know whether or not you're infringing someone else's trademark, or whether your trademark can be registered? It all comes down "likelihood of confusion." But how do you determine the likeli...

2 Nov 20198min

In this episode I go over a special way of claiming your invention by using "means plus function" claim language.  In this way of claiming your invention, you claim your invention not by physical stru...

18 Okt 20198min

This is a crossover episode from the Products Business Show Podcast (Episode 78). Amy Wenslow is the founder of "Products to Profits," a business and product marketing company. I previously interviewe...

3 Okt 201929min

A recent Federal Circuit case held that the figures in your design patent don't tell the whole story of what the scope of your protection is. The WORDS in a design application also matter.  This is im...

26 Sep 201910min

If you file a patent application in a foreign country without permission from the government, you possibly could be fined $10,000 and go to prison for two years.  Learn how to avoid getting yourself i...

19 Sep 20196min