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Mastering Patent Application Pitfalls: 3 Critical Tips

Cohn Patents2024-10-08T14:40:41+00:00

Avoiding Patent Application Pitfalls with Prior Art Insights

Discover 3 critical tips to master patent application pitfalls and enhance your invention’s standout features without overemphasizing prior art.

Describing Prior Art

Awareness of prior art is necessary in a patent application, but the more detailed your descriptions of it are, the more likely you may be to run into trouble. Avoid describing prior art beyond the hard facts of the invention, and before you actually get into the descriptions, learn about the right way to talk discuss the prior art in your application.

Comparing the Prior Art to Your Invention

New and excited inventors often...

Inventors: 3 Key Reasons Websites Are Still Vital

Cohn Patents2024-11-26T06:20:57+00:00

Inventors - Still Incredibly Important

In these days when your hours are filled with Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social media accounts, is a website even necessary? After all, your primary method of communicating with current and potential customers and clients has changed so much over the years; a website, no matter how dynamic, may just be obsolete. Or so you might be tempted to think. But, no, I believe there is a place for a website independent of all the social media accounts, and will be for a good while to come. Patent attorneys well know how quickly events can...

Discover Why a Design Patent Can Be the Right Choice

Cohn Patents2024-11-26T06:58:09+00:00

Choosing the Right Patent

Utility patents, ones that protect how a product functions, and the mechanical aspects of the invention, are usually a patent-seeker's first choice. These patents offer more protections, and a wider variety of ways to use the patent, so patent attorneys usually promote utility patents over design patents. However, design patents do have their place, and if this intellectual property mechanism is particularly suitable for your idea, then make sure to .

Utility Patent vs Design Patent

So, what is the difference between the two? It is actually relatively simple to understand. Basically, utility patents protect how something works;...

Patent Drawings: 4 Essential Tips for Inventors

Cohn Patents2024-11-26T08:18:37+00:00

Patent Drawings For Key

Unless your invention is similar to a chemical compound or other, non-visual composition, you will need to do patent drawings. These drawings are not only beneficial in documenting your invention, they are a necessity in various stages of your patent application.

How Many Do You Need?

At least one patent drawing, or patent illustration, as it is sometimes known, is required to be included with your patent application. Experienced patent attorneys and inventors, however, know that sometimes a single drawing is not nearly enough. In fact, many patent applications include several sheets of patent drawings, each showing a...

Copyright Duration: 4 Facts You Must Know Today

Cohn Patents2024-11-26T15:25:20+00:00

Let's Get This Straight - Copyright Duration

The best answer to how long a copyright lasts is usually... “it depends.” This is because more goes into determining how long a particular copyright is held, whether royalties are owed for use, whether a particular thing is in the public domain and more. There are few simple answers to the question, and even when you think you might have the answer, it's a good idea for your patent attorney or other lawyer to look further, if the matter is of importance to you. Still, there are a few guidelines that can help you...

5 Powerful Reasons for Hiring a Patent Attorney Today

Cohn Patents2024-10-20T03:52:36+00:00

Why Hiring a Patent Attorney is Essential for Your Search

Discover 5 powerful reasons for hiring a patent attorney, from expert searches to successful patent applications, for your invention.

Let's Be Frank

This will necessarily be very general, as there is no one definition of a patent attorney, and no one determinator of what that attorney does. Some specialize in little known areas, others concentrate on various parts of the patent application process, others specialize in a certain industry or venue. There are some basic steps that almost all inventors and creators must take to receive a patent, and it's in these areas...

Patent Process Guide: 3 Essential Steps for Success

Cohn Patents2024-10-21T10:46:35+00:00

The Basics Patent Process Guide

The end result of a successful patent application and process is a product protected by patent law—but there are a few steps to go through before getting to this point. Your patent attorney will guide you through many of the necessary steps, but there are some things you need to do before you even make that first call. All inventions start with an idea but, since ideas cannot be protected, it's necessary to move on from there to reach a patentable point. You need to take that idea and start layering on detail—materials, process, technology—everything that...

Master Your Invention Notebook: 3 Key Benefits Explored

Cohn Patents2024-10-20T04:03:40+00:00

The Joy of Inventing

Inventing can be fun. You come up with wild ideas, figure out how to solve a problem, or create a need... but then it comes time to work on a patent for your idea. And that's where you can run into problems. Perhaps someone, even someone you know, is trying to patent the same thing. Do you have a way of showing that you are the one that has actually been going through the process of trial and error, conception and invention? Your inventor's notebook would show just that very thing. It's important to remember, however, that...