Well, I did it… I passed the Patent Bar Exam!!! Officially known as the Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Patent Bar Exam is a 100 question, six-hour long behemoth with a 50% pass rate. Having passed it, I am now “pending registration” by …
Image via Wikipedia Take a look at your employment agreements, covenants not to compete, or non-disclosure agreements. Especially if you work in the tech sector, you can be sure that one, if not all, of these documents (which are typically signed as a condition of employment) include some sort of assignment of ownership of the …
The “non-obvious requirement” for determining if something is patentable is found in 35 USC §103 “Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter”. Specifically, in section (a), “if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the …