Patent Law News + Insights

This is the second in a two-part blog series on owning and transferring the rights to a patent. (Read part one here.)

This is the first in a two-part blog series on owning and transferring the rights to a patent.

I’m thrilled to announce that Brent Clothier has joined Henry Patent Law Firm as a patent agent.

Software patents are somewhat controversial in both the legal and technical worlds. There’s a well-documented public policy debate about whether software patents are good or bad for the economy overall. For example,  a 2015 whitepaper by the...

Should you engage a BigLaw or boutique intellectual property (IP) firm to help you with patent prosecution? Many businesses base their decision on cost, according to Law360:

• When choosing outside legal counsel, 41 percent prioritize...

This is the second in a two-part blog series on controlling the speed of the patent process. (Read part one here.)

This is the first in a two-part blog series on controlling the speed of the patent process. (Read part two here.)

If you’re reading this post, perhaps you’re dissatisfied with your patent attorney’s services — and wondering whether it’s finally time to call it quits.

Recently, a blog reader brought a great question to our attention: If an element in a dependent claim is found in the prior art, does the whole patent fall?

In a previous blog post, we recommended using IDRs to help document your company’s ownership of an invention.

You might be wondering: what does “IDR” stand for? Well, there’s no official term for the thing we’re talking about. It might go by the...