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10Jun
You can’t live forever
By Rich Baker https://player.vimeo.com/video/575967758 As much as we don’t like to think about it, none of us will live forever. To protect our legacies, we can buy life insurance for our families, and prepare wills for the orderly transition of our financial affairs to our loved ones....
13Aug
Never File a Continuation-in-Part
By Ed Ryan While Continuations and Divisionals are common, Continuations-in-Part (CIPs) are an oft-forgotten, oft-misunderstood third option for continuing a patent family. Mixing features of Continuations and new filings, they present a temptation to practitioners who feel trapped by an inadequate disclosure and to inventors who...
13Jul
Defining the Posita: PTO Examiners Must Disclose the Resolution of the Level of Ordinary Skill in the Pertinent Art
By Gary R. Maze & Richard T. Redano Examiners often combine references when asserting a claimed invention is obvious because a person of ordinary skill in the art would have reasons to combine prior art reference teachings. They almost never discuss disclose who such a person...
13Jun