As you work with your attorney to complete a non-provisional patent application for your utility, design or asexually reproducing plant-based invention, your attorney will need to conduct a thorough ...

Inventors will frequently ask why they need to spend the money on a US patent search, and all too frequently believe patent searches are unnecessary. There are various iterations of this question, ...

Steven Rushing is the patent attorney who founded Patent Monk alongside his brother Jordan, a web developer. Steven initially started out wanting to solve a common problem he observed, which was that ...

Augmenting the millions of different types of data Google now searches, it’s just added a new feature to its sidebar: The ability to search patents. It’s a powerful tweak, especially given the huge ...

As mentioned in the morning reboot, Google has unveiled a beta version of its new tool for searching the full text of US patent applications. Patent Search uses the same technology as Book Search, ...

I frequently get questions about patent searches from independent inventors, and one of the most common questions relates to timing. They ask: “When should I do a patent search?” A reasonable question ...

Another cybertool improvement for our increasingly cyberlitigious times: Google earlier today announced a prior art finder as well as a way to search patent requests that get submitted to the European ...

With numerous high-profile patent lawsuits currently being heard across the world, keeping up with them can be difficult. Google has made it somewhat easier to find patent registrations with its ...

First things first: When it comes to patents, there are no guarantees. Why? Because patent law is constantly evolving. From my perspective as an entrepreneur (which is to say, someone who views ...

Google makes it easier for users to find patents with the new Patent Search. Mostly because of Google's efforts behind the PTO’s Patent Quality Initiative. Google announced they have upgraded the ...