Introduction Understanding patent law is crucial for innovators and inventors seeking to protect their groundbreaking ideas. One aspect that often comes into play is 35 USC 101, the statute governing patent-eligible subject matter. In recent years, the landmark case...
The Supreme Court has decided to take up the enablement requirement in Amgen v. Sanofi. A great deal of what we do as patent attorneys is try to make our client’s patent protection as broad as possible. We get broad protection by drafting the claims of the patent as...
Potential clients frequently ask us about the cost of getting a patent. The proportion of the costs attributed to legal fees often surprises them. Patent Office filing fees are as low as $75 for a provisional application and $455 for a nonprovisional application, so...
This was written back in 2017, but I wanted to resurrect the article to see what has become of patent trolls and where are they now going? Back in 2017 I wrote “A unanimous Supreme Court ruling delivered Monday, May 23, 2017 closed a loophole against patent trolls...
