Patents

Sara Blakely is an entrepreneur and founder of Spanx. Like other women, Sara struggled with finding the right shapewear. After several tries with traditional shapewear, she decided to cut off her pantyhose’s feet to substitute for an undergarment beneath a pair of white pants. She noticed there were no panty lines, but her self-made undergarment […]

The first U.S. Patent Act was established in 1790 and the United States Patent and Trademark Office only requires a drawing in the patent applications that contributes to better understanding the invention. Only it is not required, including illustrations of your invention strengthens your claim and acts as a supplement to the written sections. The

The Patent Professor® Named a 2020 Law Firm 500 Honoree for Fastest Growing Law Firms in the U.S.  For over 20 years, our team at The Patent Professor®  has been dedicated to providing legal counsel for inventors in pursuit of protecting their intellectual property thus resulting in over 1,200 happy inventors. In doing so, our

My Halloween costume this year attracted a lot of attention! I looked high, low and in between for a patent costume. No, I don’t mean a costume made of patent leather. I mean I wanted to dress up as a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office. Amazon. Walmart. eBay. Party Central. Spirit of

With the advent of fast travel such as airplanes, trains, modern ships and even the automobile, pandemics are spreading farther and faster than ever before. Diseases which would once be limited to ravaging a relatively small area now pose threats to every point on the globe where humans dwell. COVID-19 has become one of the

A few months ago, I noticed my 11-year-old daughter researching something very intensely on the Internet. Because I like to think of myself as a good, caring dad who’s also wise to the world outside my house and some of the darker places the Internet can take an unwary child, I took a closer look.

My luck has never been at cards, dice, slot machines or games of chance. My luck has always involved people who supported my goals and my vision. Among the crowd of naysayers whose pragmatic mindsets said my dreams of quitting the top patent law firm in the world to go out on my own were

I think it’s safe to say, without fear of contradiction, that 2020 has been one wild year! This is especially true in the intellectual property and invention spaces, where growth has exploded. In part, this is due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its follow-on effects. If this seems counterintuitive or even paradoxical, I can completely

Post-It Notes ®  As a patent attorney, Post-It Notes are one of my favorite office tools to help keep me organized. And to think, this simple invention is made up of nothing more than a piece of paper and adhesive, but it has profited billions of dollars. Would you believe it was a complete accident?

Despite being in a real life scary situation with the Coronavirus pandemic, approximately 148 million consumers are still planning to celebrate Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey.  So I ask, what’s Halloween without all the spook, horror, and ghoulish inventions? Because I’m The Patent Professor ®, and someone obsessed with