The USPTO lists the correspondence address for this patent as Jay Schake, 2377 Old Tavern Rd. Powhatan, VA 23139

It is possible that this address is no longer current and Mr. Schake did not update the USPTO. But that is a start.

I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

United States Patent No. 9,402,810 for Pouch Containing Nicotine in Free Salt Form was issued on August 2, 2016. On the USPTO PAIR system, I do not see any indication that this patent has lapsed or been terminated.

The more general answer is that one does not need a license to use the... View More

A United States patent gives the owner the right to prohibit use of the patented technology within the US. That includes making, using, selling, or offering to sell. So a US patent prohibits someone from making something in Canada and selling it in the US or making it in the US and selling it in... View More

I agree that you should consult with a trademark attorney and be prepared that you may face aggressive action by the larger company even if there is a technical argument that you are in two different market segments. Trademark law allows for Delta to be used with respect to an airline and with... View More

A United States patent can be used to stop others from making, using, selling, or offering to sell an item or process covered by an unexpired patent.

It is possible, although rare, that a patent owner can seek a preliminary injunction to stop a party from continuing to provide a product at... View More

I agree with the first answer given. Let me add one more possibility.

Sometimes a solution known in industry is not known to the patent examiner. The patent examiner is best at finding things that were the subject of patent applications and sometimes fairly blind to common practices in... View More

It depends upon what you and the buyer agree to.

If the rights to the patent have been assigned into your company and you sell that company to buyer, then buyer owns the assets including your patent. You would not have the right to practice that patented invention without getting a... View More

Great question.

1) Each patent system works independently although there is a common front end called a Patent Cooperation Treaty application that is the start of the process for 152 patent systems. http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/pct_contracting_states.html

2) There are a couple of... View More

It is hard to patent a web site under the current case law. You usually need to show that you have invented a way to make web sites work better and that is normally independent of the content of the web site.

Putting that aside for now -- one cannot take something that is already in... View More

Here is some introductory material on Freedom-to-Operate opinions and the related concept of design around guidance.

https://www.flynniplaw.com/services/legal-services/freedom-to-operate/opinions... View More

There is not a requirement that you be a citizen of the United States in order to obtain a patent here. Many inventors obtain patents in several different countries.

I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

Step 1 -- you can pull up issued patents with class 706/12 using the USPTO search tools. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=ccl%2F706%2F12%0D%0A&d=PTXT (Long URL as I... View More

You can use the USPTO site, Google Patents, or a site I like is https://pat2pdf.org/.

I hope that this helps.

Kevin E Flynn

The answer is that you need to find a noun or verb in each independent claim of that patent that you do not have. Alternatively, you need to do some searching of prior art and find reasons why that patent should not have been issued as it was too close to the prior art.

This is hard work... View More

Possibly, but it will be difficult. After the decisions in Supreme Court Cases Bikski and Alice, it is fairly difficult to patent a computer program unless the computer program makes the computer operate more efficiently.

Step One is that you should look at recently issued patents to see... View More

There are often families of patents. They may have an initial provisional application or non-provisional application and then a set of branches with divisional applications, continuation in part (CIP) applications, and continuation applications.

Some of these may issue as patents. There... View More

I am providing a link to a slide set that I use to teach entrepreneurs how to do searches of the patent databases. http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching

I would start with Google Patents and do some really broad searching such as... View More

I am sorry to hear of your situation. Your question was listed for patents (inventions). You may have meant paRents but that is not a category.

You may want to post the same question under Family law or Elder law as this is a question of intervening when a family member may not be... View More

While imperfect, you may be satisfied by a machine translation of the Japanese patent by the web site run by the Japanese Patent Office.

Machine translated publications are available in the Japan Platform for Patent Information (J-PlatPat) database free of charge. Please access the... View More

If you want to do some searching for patents on stainless steel straws, you can pick up some pointers on searching for patents in my slide set at http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching.

I hope this helps.

Kevin E Flynn