Blog – Adam Garson Law

One of the requirements for obtaining a patent is to provide an application that contains a very specific description of the invention, or in the words of the patent statute: “The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, […]

The PTO announced a pilot program to speed review of patent applications for green technologies.  A pending application can be advanced in the review queue if the application falls within any of several pre-approved technologies and if the applicant submits a petition to ‘make the application special.’  The PTO is waiving petition fees for the […]

The recently decided case of Hewlett-Packard v. Acceleron (C.A.F.C. 2009-1283) serves as a warning to any patent owner wishing to offer a license to a patent.  If you’re in that position, be careful or you may end up in court.  Here’s why. In the distant past (which, in this instance, means before 2007) a patent […]

Global Findability, which alleged in a lawsuit that Nicholas Cage’s character in the new film “Knowing”  infringed Global Findability’s patent 7,107,286.  The patent addresses storing global position and altitude information “into a single discrete all-natural number geospatial coordinate measurement representation for identification of a geospatial positional location. . .”  In the movie, Cage’s character perceives […]