Patenting for Inventors

If you have received a cease and desist letter for your product based on alleged patent infringement, there may be a way to respond that is quick, simple, and cheap, by using a single easy to use website. Listen and find out what it is and how to do it.

Should you be afraid that your patent attorney will steal your idea? Why won't patent attorneys sign non-disclosure agreements if they don't plan on stealing your idea?

What good does a provisional patent application do? Can you use it to stop infringers? Can filing a provisional patent application stop others from stealing your invention? Find out as I answer this question from the Internet.

If you're an employee and come up with an invention, there's a good chance you don't actually own your invention. Listen to this episode to learn about the factors used to determine whether you or your employer owns the invention.

In this episode I talk about how a patent suit at the district court can be temporarily halted by the defendant requesting a post-grant review at the USPTO. This usually happens with an inter partes review request or a covered business method review request. Once the USPTO makes a determination on the validity of the patent, the case may essentially end the trial court, or the trial court may continue to determine infringement.

In this episode I go over how to answer a patent infringement complaint. You just received a complaint that alleges that you are selling a product that infringes someone else's patent. What do you do? How you respond depends on various factors, but I go through one way to answer a patent infringement complaint in this episode.

What are submarine patents and should you be afraid of them? In this episode I go over an old trick to keep your invention secret until everyone is using it. Then when your patent issues, surprise big industries with a huge patent infringement lawsuit. Not as easily done as it used to be, but still doable in some circumstances. Listen to find out how and why.

In this episode I go over the top 10 acronyms you'll come across in the patent world. I talk about IP, filing your patent application with USPTO or EPO, what a PHOSITA is, using the MPEP to examine your patent application, appealing to PTAB or the CAFC, filing a PCT application under the rules from WIPO and getting a 35 USC 101 rejection. Have no clue what I'm talking about? Then this episode is for you!

In this episode I go through a typical patent infringement complaint, including how to write about about the party that is infringing, the infringing products, your patent, and how to ask the court to help you resolve the matter.

In this episode I discuss how to respond to a patent cease and desist letter, should you ever get one. There are various strategies such as: requesting to open up negotiations to license, threatening to countersue with your own patents, threatening to invalidate their patent, designing around their patent, or ignoring their letter.