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The Tragic Tale of the Abandoned Jack-O-Lantern Display Stand

LexBlog IP

Venturing into the patent archives reveals a plethora of Halloween-inspired inventions, highlighting the seamless blend of creativity and business during this eerie season. Today we descend into the cryptic catacombs of patent drafting to exhume a narrative of innovation entangled in a web of woes. Patent Application No.

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The Analogous Art Doctrine Post-KSR: Insights from the Federal Circuit’s Daedalus Decision

Patently-O

To be considered analogous art, a reference must either be (1) from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention or (2) reasonably pertinent to the particular problem addressed by the inventor, regardless of the field in which that reference was working. In re Bigio , 381 F.3d 3d 1320 (Fed. In re Clay , 966 F.2d 2d 656 (Fed.

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Tesla’s Lasers on Vehicle Patent

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

Conception is the formation, in the mind of the inventor, of a definite and permanent idea of a complete and operative invention. 3d 998, 1000 (2014). 3d 998, 1000 (2014). A patent application must clearly explain an invention in sufficient detail to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention.