Being Excluded As An Inventor?

Since in the US patent system, inventorship is recognized instead of the company to whom the inventor may be obligated to assign their rights, inventorship issues–especially in big companies–seem to have become commonplace. Managers (incorrectly) claiming to be inventors, rightful inventors being excluded from a patent application, adding names of […]

Why I Decided to Create a Free Patent Application Generator

Screenshot of the free provisional patent application generator. Source: https://www.getmeapatent.com What is it? Get Me A Patent, available at https://www.getmeapatent.com, is a free provisional patent application generator that automatically formats an invention disclosure, and includes legal jargon. It then prefills required government forms and generates PDF documents in compliance with US […]

Patent Idea For Free

The first step to patent of an idea involves filing a provisional patent application which holds your invention date in a queue for one year. A provisional application is never examined by the patent office and needs to be followed up with subsequent non-provisional application. In this regard, some consider […]

How to patent an idea

The first step to patent of an idea involves filing a provisional patent application which holds your invention date in a queue for one year. A provisional application is never examined by the patent office and needs to be followed up with subsequent non-provisional application. In this regard, some consider […]

Cheap patent lawyer

Cheap patent lawyers are problematic. But you want a patent cheap? Or free? First off, you need to realize, patents are a monopoly–the right to prevent someone else from copying your invention. And monopolies are not cheap. At least not in capitalistic America! If there’s money to be made, people […]

Searchable Version Of the MPEP

Chhabra Law presents a searchable replication of the MPEP. This version provides significant improvements over the USPTO versions in terms of speed, accuracy, and user convenience. Intended audience  includes patent practitioners and students preparing for the patent bar. Students preparing for the patent bar should generally follow Gene Quinn’s MPEP […]

Am I too late to file a patent?

In the US, a patent application must be filed within one year of public disclosure or offering the invention on sale or use anywhere in the world. Even trivial actions can initiate the one year time period. Public disclosure would include simple actions like casually describing the invention to a […]