I am frequently asked if it is a good idea for inventors to file their own patent applications, and every time I am asked that question I suspect the person doing the asking already knows the answer, ...

I think inventors should try writing their own provisional patent applications, even if they end up hiring a patent attorney to write the final version. Why? Because committing your thoughts to paper ...

Collecting the information necessary to prepare a patent application covering a computer related invention can be quite challenging. Typically, most computer related inventions today relate at least ...

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India’s leader in Technical Communication Training, Documentation Outsourcing and Knowledge Publishing – The Writers Block (TWB) has added another dimension to its industry-leading portfolio of ...

At the end of 2003, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it will disallow certain “improper deductions” on tax returns for charitable contributions of patents and other intellectual ...

Every time someone asks me “Why?”, I think of the movie Animal House. I don’t know why that response strikes me the way it does however to this day, it still makes me laugh. John Belushi was great at ...