by Ian Burns | Jan 23, 2014 | Indexes, Nevada Intellectual Property, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Nevada Patent Index December 2013 The number of Nevada patent applications published in December declined 14.7% to 157. The number of Nevada patents granted in December increased 37% to 259. Definitions Nevada patent applications are applications that have been filed...
by Ian Burns | Jan 23, 2014 | Indexes, Nevada Intellectual Property, Trademarks, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Nevada Trademark Index December 2013 The number of Nevada trademark applications filed in December increased 7.2% to 343. This is a 19.1% increase from December 2012. The number of Nevada trademarks that were registered in December increased 24.3% to 213. This is a...
by Ian Burns | Jan 14, 2014 | Intellectual Property Law, Patent Attorneys, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
How to Read Patents In Part I of this article we discussed how to read the front page of a patent. In this Part II we will look at the drawings, specification and claims. Drawings Most utility patents include a number of drawings following the front page of the...
by Ian Burns | Jan 10, 2014 | Intellectual Property Law, Patent Attorneys, Patent Office, Patents, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Uncategorized
Entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, venture capital investors and others are often faced with important decisions related to patents: file a patent application for a new invention commercialize or use a product that may infringe another party’s patent invest in a...
by Ian Burns | Dec 30, 2013 | Drone, UAV, Uncategorized
Nevada is now an official civilian drone test site. This morning the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected the State of Nevada as one of six test site operators for civilian drones. These sites will be used to conduct critical research into certification and...
