California product companies often build value in more than one place at the same time. A consumer brand may have a memorable name, distinctive packaging, a new product feature, and…
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Patent Search in Boston: What Founders, Inventors, and Lab-Built Startups Should Check Before Filing
Boston is a good place to build something technical. It is also a hard place to assume no one else has already filed something similar. Between Kendall Square biotech, Longwood-area…
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A provisional patent application is often the lowest-cost way to get an early filing date on record. It does not get examined, and it never turns into a patent by…
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If you are developing a new invention, one of the earliest questions is often not about patents at all. It is much more immediate: do I need a non-disclosure agreement…
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The United States Patent Law has applied the first-to-invent patent system for many years. It allows patent inventors to file patent claims based on who invented the patent first, not…
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In today's video we talk about first to file, mailing yourself a copy of your invention notes, and how the current patent law affects that practice.
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Up until March 16, 2013, the US was the lone holdout for the first-to-invent system. Prior to that, it was tribal knowledge that if you invented something, you could write…
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