“To avoid the outcome in IBSA Institut Biochimique… having a high-quality accurate English translation of the priority patent application may likely best serve the applicant.” Can a U.S. patent be ...

A recent Federal Circuit decision demonstrates that for priority claims and patent term, the phrase “specific reference” is key. For example, amongst three related applications, to get the benefit of ...

According to the German Patent Act, an applicant or his successor in title may file within 12 months from the filing date of an earlier patent or utility model application a later patent application ...

The Paris Convention allows an inventor to file an initial 'priority' patent application and then to file foreign patent applications on the basis of that 'priority' application up to 1 year later.

If it's at the IT level, it comes from a data perspective. When you start moving up a little bit into the business side, people start looking at the applications because they don't really know where ...