Patent searches are conducted onsite at the US Patent and Trademark Office on the East Search System. The East Search System is the same system that is used by US Patent Examiners and includes a limited amount of foreign patents. We have been searching patents for over 20 years for purposes of determining patentability as [...]
Background A patent is a grant that is issued by the United States Government that gives you the right to exclude all others from making, using or selling the claimed subject matter of your patent, or its equivalents. Before you decide to pursue your idea, you should be confident that a market exists for you [...]
The USPTO has suggested amending any claim that is drawn to a computer readable media that covers both transitory and non-transitory embodiments may be amended to narrow the claim to cover only statutory embodiments to avoid a rejection under 35 USC § 101 by adding the limitation “non transitory” to the claim. The Notice isavailable [...]
