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12 Design Patent Search Strategies
Extensive design patent searches are a typical and essential method for assuring that the design application is granted.
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Design Patent - Requirements and Eligibility
Design patents do not cover the functionality of a product. A design patent is usually easier to get and less expensive.
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How to Declare a Patent as a Standard Essential Patent (SEP)?
Standards play an important role, especially in telecommunication, to maintain uniformity in the workflow of various technologies.
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Intellectual Property as a Career
Intellectual property work can be a particularly intriguing discipline and career to pursue for persons with inquisitive minds.
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Why is Copperpod IP the Best Patent Research Firm?
Copperpod IP works with leading patent attorneys worldwide to power patent licensing and litigation, with technology research and analytics.
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Deciphering the PCT Application Process
While there is no such thing as a world-wide patent, there is something that approximates a world-wide patent application that can result...
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10 Prior Art Search Mistakes That Undermine Your Inter Partes Review
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) is a trial held before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to cancel specific claims of a...
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Overcoming Prior Art Under U.S.C. §103 (Non-Obviousness)
35 USC §103 describes the condition of patentability referred to as non-obviousness. It reads as follows: ‘’A patent for a claimed...
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Patent Invalidity Search: New Approaches to Prior Art Search
What is Patent Invalidity Search? A patent invalidity search is a process to invalidate a patent. The patent invalidity search is...