Articles / White Papers
- View of Inventors & Product Managers on Freedom-To-Operate & Portfolio Enhancement Work Products of Patent Law Firms
In-house counsels and law firm partners seeking to improve new product clearance, lower costs and better serve clients now have access to actionable focus group findings in a white paper published by SLW. Users of patent legal services shared their beefs and kudos about freedom-to-operate (FTO) reviews in focus groups sponsored by SLW.
- Can Beauregard Claims Show You the Money?
- Intellectual Property for the Entrepreneur
- EPO Enlarged Board Clarifies Software Patentability While Dismissing EPO Referral
- Federal Circuit Applies Bilski Standard in Classen
- Ex Parte Kubin
- World Intellectual Property Review 2008
- June 2008 UPSize
- June 2008 issue of Intellectual Property Law & Business
- Federal Circuit Split Decision
- Claiming Metabolites: Federal Circuit Poses New Challenges to Patent Applicants
- Electronic and Software Patents
- Avoiding Infringement Problems
Utility patents cover how products are made, work, or are used. Their owners can stop the unauthorized practice of their inventions for up to twenty years from filing. Design patents last fourteen years.... - 10 Tips for Inventors
- Nondisclosure Agreements
A nondisclosure agreement is a contract in which the parties promise to protect the confidentiality of secret information that is disclosed during employment or another type of business transaction....
