In recent years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has systematically been engaging the legal community with inventor assistance beyond the agency’s usual business of examining applications for patents and trademarks. The purpose of the USPTO’s effort has been to support innovators who are constrained by a lack of resources to pay for patent counsel necessary to protect the full scope of their inventions. This Article describes the brief history, flexible structure, and ongoing growth of that effort, embodied in the USPTO Patent Pro Bono Program. The Patent Pro Bono Program is a national network coordinated by the USPTO to connect inventors and small businesses with registered patent attorneys and agents to assist in the filing ...
This Article is the first to comprehensively interrogate the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent in...
Article published in the Michigan State University School of Law Student Scholarship Collection
In September, 2011, the Senate passed H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), which ...
In recent years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has systematically been engaging the ...
Commentators have long recognized that much of the work of commercializing an invention occurs after...
Congress, while enacting at least six major revisions to patent law since 1793, has left the definit...
Congress, while enacting at least six major revisions to patent law since 1793, has left the definit...
Congress, while enacting at least six major revisions to patent law since 1793, has left the definit...
This Article builds on the very best parts of current cross-sectional work by adding a longitudinal ...
Commentators have long recognized that much of the work of commercializing an invention occurs after...
In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Markman that claim construction was a matter of law for the...
Moore\u27s Law generally asserts that the transistor capacity on a computer processing unit increase...
When a trade secret is stolen from its owner and posted on the Internet, the default rule is that it...
Government increasingly leverages its regulatory function by embodying in law standards that are pro...
Our project had two main goals: to investigate the gaps in the perception of patent prosecution qual...
This Article is the first to comprehensively interrogate the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent in...
Article published in the Michigan State University School of Law Student Scholarship Collection
In September, 2011, the Senate passed H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), which ...
In recent years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has systematically been engaging the ...
Commentators have long recognized that much of the work of commercializing an invention occurs after...
Congress, while enacting at least six major revisions to patent law since 1793, has left the definit...
Congress, while enacting at least six major revisions to patent law since 1793, has left the definit...
Congress, while enacting at least six major revisions to patent law since 1793, has left the definit...
This Article builds on the very best parts of current cross-sectional work by adding a longitudinal ...
Commentators have long recognized that much of the work of commercializing an invention occurs after...
In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Markman that claim construction was a matter of law for the...
Moore\u27s Law generally asserts that the transistor capacity on a computer processing unit increase...
When a trade secret is stolen from its owner and posted on the Internet, the default rule is that it...
Government increasingly leverages its regulatory function by embodying in law standards that are pro...
Our project had two main goals: to investigate the gaps in the perception of patent prosecution qual...
This Article is the first to comprehensively interrogate the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent in...
Article published in the Michigan State University School of Law Student Scholarship Collection
In September, 2011, the Senate passed H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), which ...