Coronavirus has had an impact on all individuals, industries and businesses, including attorneys and their clients that have pending trademark and patent applications. Do you ha...

Tux the penguin, mascot of the Linux free and open source operating system kernel. Copyright (c) of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and created in the GIMP open source graphics editor.The cor...

The Federal Circuit. recently rejected the patent venue test established by Judge Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas.  The three-judge panel found that Judge Gilstrap appl...

The U.S. Patent Act (35 U.S.C. § 271(a)) grants a patent owner the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, offering for sale or importing a patent invention within t...

As a general rule, a utility patent has a term of 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States.  Even though the term of a utilit...