by Melanie Guinaldo | Mar 3, 2021
A Practitioner’s Mission to Improve Prosecution Results Who would have thought that “search and rescue” could find its way into a patent attorney’s job description? While the patent version of a search and rescue may not be as dangerous or adventurous as the real...
by Melanie Guinaldo | Feb 24, 2021
Integrating for Better Performance With LexisNexis PatentOptimizer® The LexisNexis PatentOptimizer® patent drafting tool has earned a reputation among users for helping them quickly produce patent document drafts that perform better among USPTO patent examiners....
by Melanie Guinaldo | Feb 17, 2021
Strategic Drafting With Patent Analytics Tools There is a method to the madness of matching a USPTO patent examiner to each patent application. A lot happens before an examiner is assigned to a newly filed application. The USPTO first considers which team of examiners...
by Melanie Guinaldo | Feb 4, 2021
Using USPTO Archives to Generate Office Action Responses There is a nearly unfathomable amount of patent data in the archives of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). According to the most recent “U.S. Patent Statistics Chart” published by the...
by Melanie Guinaldo | Feb 4, 2021
Reducing Costs by Investing in Patent Quality Everyone wants to get off on the right foot, whether it be making a good first impression with a new acquaintance or with the patent office. In patent prosecution, the first documents submitted to the USPTO provide patent...
by Melanie Guinaldo | Feb 3, 2021
CPC Classification: The New Approach to Assigning Art Units The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been in the process of revising its patent classification methods for many years. Through a joint effort with the European Patent Office, the USPTO...
