It takes a lot of time, energy, and money for a business owner, innovator, or creator of intellectual property to bring their ideas to fruition. Protecting your intellectual property from things like theft, misuse, and infringement is crucial given its monetary value. One method of guarding your creative work is to record all the associated… Continue reading Why You Should Keep Track of Intellectual Property Metadata?
Month: March 2023
How Using a Negative Claim Restriction Can Be a Positive Patent Strategy?
In patent prosecution, a negative claim restriction often called a negative recitation, is used to broaden the patent’s coverage. One common tactic is to add a “negative restriction” in a claim, which narrows the claim’s scope by excluding traits or parts that are already common knowledge. Let’s take a patent application for a new wind… Continue reading How Using a Negative Claim Restriction Can Be a Positive Patent Strategy?
Where Can I Identify Relevant Patents Using Non-Patent Literature?
Non-patent literature (NPL) can be used in a variety of ways to support the search for valuable patents. One can, for instance, search for patents that integrate major concepts and improvements related to their field of expertise by first looking through the National Patent Literature (NPL). Let’s think about the following situation to illustrate this… Continue reading Where Can I Identify Relevant Patents Using Non-Patent Literature?