Patenting for Inventors

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

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

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

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 Dec 20187min

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 Dec 201810min

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 Dec 201810min

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 Dec 201810min