“Refiling a provisional is just a bad idea when you can, for a few hundred dollars more, keep hold of that earliest priority date and continue on the path to obtaining a patent.” The question that we ...

There has been much discussion as of late on “essential patents” or “standard-essential patents” (SEPs). Broadly speaking, SEPs are a particular type of patent having claims which cover an aspect or ...

Publication of design patent applications under the Hague Agreement for the Registration of Industrial Designs increases the value of provisional rights in the United States, as Brent M Dougal ...

“Under this view, the patentee could actually benefit from having a patent issue after its expiration date because the patent’s provisional-rights term would extend beyond the patent’s twenty-year ...