How To Patent Your Jewelry Designs
If you design or make jewelry, whether it’s a hobby or something you’ve turned into a full-fledged business, you probably take great pride in your work and in imagining people wearing and enjoying your creations. The last thing you want is to spend time and resources creating something special only to have someone else...
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Bold Patents for Dental Professionals
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Are you a dental professional improving on your field through innovations and ideas? The world needs more people like you! As you’re going through the process of designing new tools or processes, it’s important to have some type of legal protection in place. Intellectual Property is a complex...
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Patenting Your Academic Tech Idea
In recent years, innovations in technology have touched different industries in various ways. Technology has led to process improvements in some cases, while fundamentally changing business operations in others. In academics and education, technological advances more than a decade ago paved the way for remote instruction and collaboration tools that were widely embraced and...
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The Guide: Patenting Dental Implants
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Dental professionals understand that dental implants are essential for patients who have lost teeth due to injury, decay, or other reasons. They provide a permanent solution to restore a patient's smile and improve their quality of life. However, developing a new dental implant can be a challenging process,...
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Construction Patents For Inventions And Innovations
Innovative ideas for new and improved processes and tools have brought some remarkable changes to the construction industry in recent years. For example, processes and components for modular and prefabricated structures, autonomous construction robots, and technology solutions designed to manage job sites more effectively have created resource efficiencies, improved safety, and established more environmentally...
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Dental Tools & Patents
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Dental tools and inventions have come a long way in recent years, and many dental professionals, like yourself, are paving the way for improved tools, better patient care, more positive patient outcomes, and even more efficiency for other dentists.
When I say dental tools have come a long way,...
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How To Write A Broad Provisional Patent Specification
Filing for provisional patent protection can be a smart move for inventors, as doing so gives you the right to use “patent pending” language and take up to 12 more months to file the non-provisional patent application materials. The provisional patent specification, which is essentially a description of the invention, forms a key part...
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Design Patent Mistakes To Avoid When Filing An Application
Filing a design patent application can provide valuable protection. In fact, once approved, you will have protection for your invention’s appearance for 15 years. While applying for a design patent is typically a simpler process than applying for a utility patent, there are several common patent mistakes that could result in costly delays. Understanding...
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Next Patent Steps To Consider After A Notice Of Allowance
If you submitted your patent application close to a year ago, or even longer, and have patiently waited and responded to one or more office actions, you are likely ready to be done with the patent filing process. Applying for patent protection can, at times, seem like a never-ending process. When you finally receive...
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Patenting in Virtual (VR) and Augmented (AR) Reality
Patenting in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) is a rapidly growing area of innovation, as these technologies offer new and exciting ways to experience and interact with digital content. AR and VR have a wide range of applications, from gaming and entertainment, to education and training, to healthcare and industrial design, and...
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Patenting in Software
So you have a new software idea or process. These are probably some of the questions you’re asking yourself:
Can I protect my software invention with a patent?
Is my software eligible for a patent?
Can I secure the exclusive rights to this software invention?
Can I monetize my software invention through patents or licensing?
What is a Software...
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Furniture Patents
The furniture each of us uses every day impacts our lives in ways most people probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about. Having unique furniture can make us more comfortable at home or on vacation, more productive at work and can even improve quality of life. If you have an idea for...
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Dental Industry Patents
Patenting your dental invention can be a valuable investment for protecting and commercializing your ideas. However, navigating the process without an attorney can be complex and time-consuming. A patent gives the inventor exclusive rights to prevent others from making, using, selling, and importing an invention for a specified period of time, usually 20 years...
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Sports Patents: How To Protect Your Innovations
The sports and fitness industry has grown exponentially in recent decades, thanks in large part to continued innovation in the products, gadgets and technologies used by recreational athletes and sports professionals alike. While much of this innovation has been driven by major corporations, many ground-breaking products came to fruition because of ideas hatched by...
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Kitchen Innovations And Pursuing A Patent
If there’s one room in the typical American home that has changed the most over the last 100 years, it has to be the kitchen. It’s perhaps the most important room in any house, and the amount of cooking and cleaning that goes on there means people are always looking for tips, tricks and...
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How Do You Draft A Patent Abstract?
You’re ready to patent your invention, but you just found out you need something called a “patent abstract.” If you’re not sure what that is or what you should do next, don’t panic! An abstract is a written summary that is included as a separate page with your patent application and is designed to...
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Cloud Computing And Patents
Cloud computing is now a core component of effective business operations. This distributed resource model has seen significant growth over the past few years, and this expanding market has opened the door for technology innovation.
The challenge? Ensuring that credit — and compensation — for new and creative ideas are given where they are due....
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Patents For Pet Tech
If you are a pet parent, you’re probably always on the lookout for innovative products and services designed with your pet’s enjoyment in mind. And let’s face it: When a new product for our cats, dogs, or other furry friends also promises to make our own lives easier, purchasing that product is usually a...
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3 Steps to Take Once your Invention is Patent Pending
Woohoo!! You’re Patent Pending!!! Now What??? …. Well, don’t just sit there!
Seriously, one of the worst things you can do while your patent is pending is wait for the USPTO, wait to time the market out just right, or wait until your product is perfect (hint: it will never be perfect).
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Go Big, Go Bold: The Business of Building Confidence
It’s been 10 years since I started Bold IP, PLLC, known now as “Bold Patents”. Looking back over the years, and how we’ve developed and grown and been able to impact inventors around the country (and the world), one thing has stood out when I take that forest-from-the-trees perspective. It really isn’t the pages...
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A Complete Guide On How To Secure a Patent
When you have an idea for an invention it’s understandable that you’re excited and ready to share it with the world. But, before you do that, you should first make sure it doesn’t already exist. If it doesn’t yet exist, you should take the necessary steps to patent your invention before sharing...
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What You Need To Know About How To Patent a Software Idea
You have an original idea. You may be excited to be the next billionaire because of your brainchild, but you need to take a breath. An idea alone can not be patented. However, if your idea can turn into an innovative process, then you may be able to protect it like any...
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The Utility Patent Timeline: What You Can Expect To Encounter
If you want to ensure no one copies your invention or financially benefits from it, it’s time to apply for a utility patent. The utility patent timeline can vary depending on your invention, your record keeping, and your filing. For do-it-yourselfers, the process to obtain a patent...
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How to do a Patent Search in 6 Steps (The Definite Guide)
Knowing how to do a patent search is probably the most challenging and daunting part of the patent process. It takes a rolling-up-the-sleeves attitude and a whole lot of passion to get it done right. There is nothing glamorous about the patent search process. It requires combing through hundreds—or even thousands—of...
Top Reasons for a Refusal of Registration of Trademark
Developing a brand identity is a rewarding part of starting your own business. You can decide how you want the public to see your company and express that identity through your logo, business name, and color scheme—to name just a few. You’ll also need to trademark some of these elements to guard...
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