As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, patent offices worldwide are taking steps to minimize negative impacts that patent and trademark filers may suffer. Many offices have asked their employees to work ...

“Although DOCX fees are currently set to go into effect next January, multiple extensions to that deadline as well as the indefinite extension to the PDF filing option indicate that this issue and ...

Love it or hate it, the United States patent system formed on April 10, 1790 when President George Washington signed a bill that gave inventors rights to their creations. The law gave the patent board ...

Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) published a pair of documents in the Federal Register regarding due dates on new document formatting requirements for patent applications filed with the ...

A notice of allowance is issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office to indicate that it believes an invention qualifies for a patent. However, the person originally filing for the patent is ...