As you work with your attorney to complete a non-provisional patent application for your utility, design or asexually reproducing plant-based invention, your attorney will need to conduct a thorough ...

You have an amazing, earth-shattering idea; an ingenious way to solve an old problem, or a groundbreaking new technology. Of course, you can’t patent an idea. But as soon as you’ve fleshed it out to ...

Google has been a significant player in many facets of the patent world — as a creator, critic, litigator, buyer and big data indexer. Today, it’s taking the wraps off a product that is its flagship ...

Inventors will frequently ask why they need to spend the money on a US patent search, and all too frequently believe patent searches are unnecessary. There are various iterations of this question, ...

The patent workflow is undergoing a fundamental shift. What once required multiple tools, manual coordination, and ...

Sam Bell asks a couple of good questions about our new patent paper: (1) Does the patent office itself not have an index of some sort? If not, how do they check applications against existing patents? ...

Steven Rushing is the patent attorney who founded Patent Monk alongside his brother Jordan, a web developer. Steven initially started out wanting to solve a common problem he observed, which was that ...