Before you hire a patent attorney or patent agent to help you write and file a patent application, you should know about their policies and practices. Most of the inventor-friendly patent ...

There have been many articles on patents that answer questions such as “How do I file a patent?”, “Should I patent my idea?”, or “How much does a patent cost?” All these are good to read if you’re ...

Inventors will frequently ask why they need to spend the money on a US patent search, and all too frequently believe patent searches are unnecessary. There are various iterations of this question, ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Pictured June 30, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.

Over the past 25 years, I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorneys alone. I have filed more than 25 patents, some of which I unfortunately had to defend in federal court. I’ve learned ...