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What’s the difference between a patent attorney and a patent agent?
Many don’t know there is a difference between a patent attorney and a registered patent agent. In the US, a patent attorney is both a registered patent agent and an attorney at law. It means that a patent attorney has both a degree in either science or engineering and a law degree, in most cases…
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An example of a useless patent based on a useful invention
An example is provided below to illustrate how critical the patent drafter’s skills are. The example is not meant to be a comprehensive illustration of all aspects of the matters discussed in this article. Doing so might require a book or an entire course. Instead, the example is used to highlight a single point regarding the…
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What is a patent?
Despite the headlines of patent lawsuits involving hundreds of millions of dollars, most people’s understanding of what a patent is and what it does is vague at best. A patent is the grant of a property right to an inventor of an invention, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new…