Home FREE Newsletter
Newsflash

Q: Is the USPTO considering methods to help independent inventors to enforce their patents in court? It is difficult for most independent inventors to handle the financial and legal requirements for patent cases?

Read more...
Patent Inventions arrow Patent Q & A

PATENT Q & A

The United States Patent and Trademark Office holds on-line chat sessions. Here are the highlights of the question and answer sessions from those chats.

  • International Patent Filing  ( 5 items )
    » Questions and answers pertaining international patent filing.

  • Inventor Help  ( 7 items )
    » Should you write the patent application yourself or use a patent attorney? Learn a little about the people inventors can trust.

  • Types of Patents  ( 8 items )
    » Explore the types of patents and criteria for submitting them.

  • Publication  ( 3 items )
    » Questions and answers pertaining to the publication of patent applications.

  • Patent Claims  ( 6 items )
    » The patent application claims describe exactly what has been invented. They serve to "claim" the new features of it.

  • Patent Prosecution  ( 17 items )
    » The prosecution includes the procedures that follow after a regular patent application is filed. Review common questions and answers pertaining to the patent prosecution period.

  • Patentability  ( 9 items )
    » Determining whether or not your invention is patentable is a tricky ordeal. Explore patentability and FAQ pertaining to patentability in this section.

  • Provisional Applications  ( 14 items )
    » Provisional applications are interim patent applications that many inventors find useful. Explore the in's and out's of provisional applications in this section.

  • Patent Searching  ( 8 items )
    » A patent search should reveal whether or not the new invention is actually novel and nonobvious and will help to determine if it qualifies for a patent.