Can you change a patent application after it has been filed? Do ideas simply stop churning in your head after a patent application has been filed? Anyone creative enough to file a patent application would likely continue to think and improve upon their innovation. When your brain has been in a constant mode of creation, […]
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What is the difference between claims and the description of the invention?
Claims vs. Description of the Invention A utility patent is not a simple thing to understand. In a typical utility patent, you’ll see a bunch of drawings labeled as Figures and paragraphs of text. Somewhere in the text is a description with numerals referring back to the figures. Towards the end of the document, a […]
How to read a patent: Utility vs. design patents
How to read a patent While design patents are straightforward, utility patents can be confusing to understand. You have the claims which read like a foreign language. And then you have the written description which typically discloses details that seem to be more specific than what you find in the claims. How do we make […]