Compact Prosecution and Cost Control - Identifying and using new grounds of rejection to control prosecution and control costs ...

Protecting Your Patent Portfolio - Licensors wishing to maintain the value of their hard-earned intellectual property should consider recent decisions when planning patent portfolios, crafting claims and drafting licensing agreements...

Claims in Provisional Applications ~ developing robust claims for provisional applications can help to ensure that important enablement requirements are satisfied ...

The requirement that evidence support motivation for modifying a primary reference is alive and kicking ...

Obviousness rejections are readily invalidated without addressing limitations in the rejected claims or, in many instances, without addressing any aspect of the application at issue ...

Combating Obviousness ~ the Kubin court provides a path to clarify the obviousness standard set forth in KSR ...