What Every Inventor and Patent Applicant Needs to Know If you’ve been using artificial intelligence tools: ChatGPT, Copilot, generative design software, or any other AI-powered platform as part of your research and development process, a major shift in U.S. patent law directly affects you. In November 2025, the United States...
Artificial Intelligence at the USPTO and EPO
In January 2019, USPTO also issued *revised guidance on patent eligible subject matter....
Patent Prosecution with the USPTO – Cont’d
Let’s go into some detail in how the prosecution process works: REJECTIONS VS. OBJECTIONS In Office Actions, there are two seemingly similar terms used by patent examiners when they are refusing to allow patent claims. Claims can either be “rejected” or they can be “objected” to, and in some cases...
Patent Prosecution with the USPTO
WHAT IS A PATENT? A patent is a grant by a sovereign state that provides the recipient with certain legal rights. In the US, it gives the rights to exclude others from practicing an invention. So a patent doesn’t necessarily give you the right to practice your invention. It rather...