Patenting for Inventors

Generally patents last 20 years from the date of filing, but in some situations they can be extended past this date. Check out this episode to learn about the situations where your patent term can be extended.

In this episode I talk about how to conduct a patent examiner interview. I go over how to schedule one, what to do during an interview and what to do after an interview, as well as some patent interview strategies.

Sometimes your patent or patent application goes abandoned because you didn't respond to a rejection in time or you didn't pay the right amount fees to the patent office. What should you do? Learn the basics of patent and patent application revivals in this episode.

If your patent examiner keeps rejecting your application, what should you do? One option is to appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Learn what an appeal is, and how to do one.

In this bonus episode of "Patenting for Inventors," I interview Genein Letford, author, educator, and founder of Alumni360, an entrepreneurship mentoring program for college bound students.

There are several options for responding to a Final Office Action. One option is to file a Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Request so that your application is reviewed by additional patent examiners. Learn how to do this, and learn when it is, and when it is not in your interest to file one.

There are several options for responding to a final rejection. In this episode learn how to do one of those options, called a Request for Continued Examination.

If the claims in your patent application have been rejected twice, you usually will receive a final office action. Don't worry yet! "Final" does not mean final. There are at least eight options you have, and in this episode I present an overview of these eight options.

You are only allowed one patent per invention, but sometimes you might get a rejection called a "Double Patenting Rejection." What are these and how do you handle them?

Continuation-in-Part applications are useful for when you have some additional features you want to get patent protection for, but you didn't include them in your original patent application.