Rajesh,

This is surprisingly difficult to fix as you signed the original oath on July 7, 2003 as Rajesh Vaidheswarra. Most likely this was the spelling used throughout the process.

Ideally, you would have corrected this problem in July of 2003. Now the USPTO believes there is an... View More

Might not be a patent. The Supreme Court has recently made it fairly difficult to patent a method of organizing human activity. See the documents used to train patent examiners -- https://www.uspto.gov/patent/laws-and-regulations/examination-policy/subject-matter-eligibility On the other hand,... View More

The focus needs to be on the patent claims. Not the title of the patent. Not the drawings. Not the abstract. Not the details in the specification. You cannot make something that has all the nouns, verbs, and other requirements that exist in an independent claim in a patent. Some claims are... View More

First, you are lucky as there are far fewer patent attorneys than attorneys as a patent attorney needs two different things, a bar license from a state and a patent registration from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. But, you can pick a patent attorney from anywhere in the country.... View More

Here are some tips on doing your own patent searching. http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching You may want to augment this effort with hiring a patent attorney to do some additional checking.

I hope that this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

As a preliminary step, you may want to do some initial searching using tips from my search slides. http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching You are likely going to want to consult with a patent attorney but I prefer clients that have done some initial searching before they contact me. It is weird that some... View More

I am sorry, your question was sent out to people that seek patents for inventors. You need to submit this question under the category of real property.

I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

PATENT TERM

Patent term is more confusing than it should be. The one part that is simple, is that patent term is not a function of the technology. There is not a way for the applicant to apply to extend the patent term (unlike trademarks or copyrights). (but as noted below, there are... View More

PATENT TERM

Patent term is more confusing than it should be. The one part that is simple, is that patent term is not a function of the technology. There is not a way for the applicant to apply to extend the patent term (unlike trademarks or copyrights). (but as noted below, there are... View More

PATENT TERM

Patent term is more confusing than it should be. The one part that is simple, is that patent term is not a function of the technology. There is not a way for the applicant to apply to extend the patent term (unlike trademarks or copyrights). (but as noted below, there are... View More

There are several possible answers.

1) Exxon Mobile (EM) has found a variation to the process that they believe lacks one of the requirements in each of the independent claims of this patent and thus they do not infringe.

2) EM believes that the patent should not have been issued as... View More

Here is my slide set on patent searching. Http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching.

I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

I see that you filed a patent application and the PTO processed the application with an Office Action rejecting the claim as too vague to even examine. After a period of six months, the application was deemed abandoned. There is an indication in the file that the final notice was returned as... View More

Mr. Mlynek's answer is correct but I suspect that you were not the person that filed the patent somewhere else. If that is the situation then you are not supposed to file patent applications on things that you did not invent.

Secondly, as you know of these patent applications filed... View More

To augment the detailed response by Mr. Mlynek, there are two possibilities.

1) the patented process works and maybe the data while not perfect for the purpose of a scientific paper does actually support the premise that the patented process works,; or

2) the patented process does... View More

The answer by Mr. Mlynek was good. Another way to put the patentabiliity question is whether a person of ordinary skill in the art of designing your type of product would be able to come up with your solution as just a recombination of known principles rather than an inventive step given... View More

There is a law that when someone files a complaint for patent infringement in a Federal District Court, that the clerk of court has to fill out a form noting the patents that are involved. This information is reported to the USPTO and put into a database. You can search this information here.... View More

I am so sorry that you have had a bad experience with your patent attorney. Ideally, there is an open flow of communication going back and forth.

It is often hard to give a precise estimate, especially with a new client as the costs to prepare a patent application will vary with the... View More

Most products are used with other products that are patented. Think of all the peripheral devices that can work with your laptop, your cell phone, or your smart speaker.

I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

Mr. Mlynek is correct. The vast majority of patents are owned by companies, not by individual people. It would be unusual for a patent owner to die before a patent expires but unusual does not mean never. If you own a valuable patent as an individual, it is worth having a conversation with the... View More