Whether you do it yourself or have a patent agent or attorney do it for you, applying for a patent costs money. If you do it yourself in order to save on agent or attorney fees, you’ll pay for the money you save in terms of your time. You will also have to do your…
Imagine that you invented a product and expect to license it and someone else begins to profit off a product that is similar to yours. You have reason to believe that they stole your invention. You’re probably wondering, “do you have a case for patent infringement?” At the Law Offices of Dorian Cartwright, we can…
When you’re thinking about applying for a patent for your new invention, you’ve got three choices. You can try to do it yourself; you can hire a patent agent to help, or you can hire a patent lawyer. In order to decide which choice is best for you, you need to understand your invention, know…
The way a business or company uses its patents can determine, to a great degree, its success or failure. Intellectual property is a very important asset to companies that deal with technology, science, or design, and innovative and creative members of the company’s team often come up with unique ideas and approaches to solve various…
Before getting into all the exciting copyright and patent issues we’ll see this year, let’s do a brief review of five significant things that happened in the patent or patent-related world in 2017 (next week: copyright). Confusion over USPTO leadership. In many ways, the year started out with mass confusion, including at the United States Patent…
Amazon’s latest patent hints at what it might be like to get dressed in the future. On Tuesday, the tech giant was granted a patent for a blended reality mirror, which could superimpose virtual clothing onto your reflection. It would also be capable of placing you in a virtual scene, like a beach or a…
The Supreme Court has weighed in on a patent battle between Samsung and Apple, siding with Samsung by declaring that the patent infringement for an element of a design should be treated differently from the infringement of an entire design. The dispute between the two tech giants isn’t about whether Samsung violated Apple’s patents, but rather about…
Alice v. CLS Bank Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. __, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014), was a 2014 decision of the United States Supreme Court about patentable subject matter (patent eligibility). The issue in the case was whether certain claims about a computer-implemented, electronic escrow service for facilitating financial transactions covered abstract ideas ineligible for patent protection. The patents were held…