“Provisional patent applications are widely touted as the go-to thing for startup companies or independent inventors, but they are always the wrong thing to do,” says Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron, a ...

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“The [patent] statute confirms that IPRs should not be instituted based on patent applications that published after the priority date of the challenged patent [but] the PTAB has permitted IPRs to be ...

This 3-part series of posts examines the benefits, disadvantages, and pitfalls concerning nonpublication requests for patent applications. Part 3 of this series focuses on the pitfalls to be aware of ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Pictured June 30, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.

The Patent Cooperation Treaty, or the PCT as it is typically referred to, came into existence in 1970. It is open to States party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ...