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Reexamination of Patents

After a patent is issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the discovery of prior art or publications not noticed prior to the patent's issue may raise questions as to the validity of the issued patent. In such a case, a...

Patents

In order to encourage the advancement of science and technology, the federal government gives an incentive to inventors to disclose new ideas that have been embodied in inventions by granting a patent, a temporary right to exclude others from...

Publication

Publication was the key to obtaining federal copyright under the Copyright Act of 1909. Publication is still important to copyright owners but it is no longer the key. Publication is defined in the Copyright Act of 1976 as "the distribution of...

Patents

After a patent is issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the patent owner may mark the patented articles with the word "Patent" or the abbreviation "Pat." along with the patent number assigned by the USPTO. This marking of...

Jurisdiction and Procedure in Patent Disputes

A patent gives the patent owner an exclusive right in the subject matter of the patent. If another person or company makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, or imports the subject matter of the patent, that other person or company is said to be...