When filing a patent with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office), an inventor of a process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or of any new and useful improvement thereof, must file a document known as an Inventor’s Declaration, in which the inventor certifies that he is in fact the original or an […]

The America Invents Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011, and took final effect on March 16, 2013. It is an overhaul of the U.S. patent system and serves to more closely align the U.S. system with the way the rest of the world operates. One of the biggest […]