by Michael Goltry, Registered Patent Attorney (480-991-3537; mg@pgpct.com) One question facing inventors is whether their invention is patentable in view of what is known in the prior art, namely, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to the originality of an… Read more
Category: Patents
by Michael Goltry, Registered Patent Attorney (480-991-3537; mg@pgpct.com) What is a patent application? It’s just a request for a grant of a patent described in a specification and claimed by a set of one or more claims that define, in technical terms, the scope of sought protection. The more patent applications I write, the less… Read more
Category: Patents
by Michael Goltry, Registered Patent Attorney (480-991-3537; mg@pgpct.com) On January 7, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued is 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (2019 PEG). The 2019 PEG revises the USPTO’s procedures to determine whether a claim is directed to a judicial exception to patent eligible subject matter. The intention… Read more
Category: Patents , Trademark
by Michael Goltry, Registered Patent Attorney (480-991-3537; mg@pgpct.com) Since 1995, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“Office”) has offered inventors the option of filing a provisional application for patent which was designed to provide a lower cost first patent filing in the United States. A provisional application provides the means to establish an early… Read more
Category: Patents