The inaugural edition of the Intellectual Property Rights Guide was distributed via email today. The Intellectual Property Rights Guide is a publication co-authored by Patrick Richards of Richards Patent Law and Natalie Remien of Remien & Associates and is intended to provide plain language answers to commonly asked intellectual property questions. The first edition included ... [Read more]
Posts Tagged ‘design patents’
What’s the value of Intellectual Property?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
What’s the value of Intellectual Property? IP rights are not inherently valuable. Their value is the strategic advantage gained by excluding others from using the intellectual property. To be valuable, your exclusionary rights should be strategically aligned with your business objectives. Without a strategic alignment, you may be wasting your investment and missing opportunities to ... [Read more]
Design Patent Examination at the USPTO More Closely Resembles Registration Than Examination
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
According to a recent blog post at Patently-O, a leading patent law blog, based on the review of 1049 file histories of design patents that issued in the past 12 months, only 1.2% of design patent applications were rejected based on prior art during patent prosecution and over 80% were never rejected at all. In ... [Read more]
