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Free, Online 2022 Black Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program
February 8, 2022
Are you a current or aspiring inventor or entrepreneur? Would you like to learn from successful innovators and subject matter experts about keys to success and how to use your creativity to reach your full potential? If so, be sure…
Read MoreUSPTO launches new Patent Public Search Tool and Webpage
February 1, 2022
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced a new Patent Public Search tool that provides more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent applications. In the past, users could only access…
Read MoreIndiana Small Business Development Center Announces $15,000 Business Development Grant Opportunity
January 28, 2022
Applications are now open for the Indiana Technical Assistance Program (INTAP) through Feb. 20, 2022. This exciting statewide initiative connects small businesses with critical professional assistance to complete growth and improvement projects. Through INTAP, eligible small businesses may apply to…
Read MoreTrademark Owners Beware of Fraudulent Solicitations
September 20, 2021
Entities such as Patent and Trademark Office, LLC, and Patent and Trademark Bureau, LLC give a false impression that they are the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), scamming more than 2,900 U.S. trademark registrants out of millions of…
Read MoreUSPTO Updates Q&As Regarding Arthrex
August 3, 2021
The Supreme Court published its decision in United States v. Arthrex on June 21, 2021, granting the Director of the USPTO final review in decisions made by Administrative Patent Judges in proceedings in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal…
Read MoreUSPTO Seeking Comment on Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence
July 29, 2021
The USPTO is seeking comment on the current state of patent eligibility jurisprudence since the Alice and Mayo decisions by the Supreme Court in 2016, and the effect that these decision and subsequent decision by the Federal Circuit have had…
Read MoreHappy World Intellectual Property Day
April 26, 2021
Monday, April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day, a day to celebrate and learn about the role that intellectual property rights play to encourage and facilitate innovation and creativity. Originally created by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000,…
Read MoreSupreme Court Finds Google’s Copying of API to be Fair Use
April 20, 2021
The Supreme Court has decided in favor of Google in a copyright case that pitted the software company against Oracle, the owner of the popular Java programming language. When creating its Android platform for smartphones, Google copied about 11,500 of declaring…
Read MoreIP Gotchas: Protecting Software IP
February 25, 2021
Software is enormously valuable. Of the top 10 largest companies today, only Saudi Aramco and Berkshire Hathaway are not in the software business, but even they could not survive without it. The others – Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tencent, Facebook,…
Read MoreIP Gotchas: Open Source Software
November 9, 2020
Many companies use open source software to produce goods and services, and many also actively develop software using open source libraries and modules. Open source software is commonly used for online software services, smart phone apps, downloadable executables, or embedded…
Read MoreIP Gotchas: Patenting Neural Networks
October 12, 2020
The demand for improvements in autonomous technology is accelerating. Memory and processing power has continued to grow exponentially cheaper, but the volume of data to process has exploded making it nearly impossible for traditional data analysis techniques to provide timely…
Read MoreStudy Shows that Recent Guidance Documents Published by USPTO Regarding Subject Matter Eligibility are Proving Effective in Reducing Uncertainty
June 18, 2020
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a study titled “Adjusting to Alice” that provides the results of an examination of patent examination outcomes after the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice. This study found that recent efforts…
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