I recently agreed to contribute to the FORUM IP Talks, a weekly LinkedIn newsletter covering topics related to intellectual property (IP). In this written interview with the FORUM Institute, I… read more →
The landscape of patent litigation is markedly different between the United States (US) and other jurisdictions, especially the territory that is covered by the Unified Patent Court (UPC), which is… read more →
When I hear that someone wants to file a patent for something that does not yet exist, at least as a proof-of-concept model or as a simple simulation, I am… read more →
Great honor for me to be invited to talk in front of an audience from Texas/USA. In this talk, I go into deeper detail about the very few cases when… read more →
Here is my advice: when it comes to prior art searches for novice inventors, don’t actively engage yourself in a patent search too early. Instead, ask the inventors to produce… read more →
I had the opportunity to have a 38 minutes long phone discussion with Steve Weinrieb. Steve is one of the dyed-in-the-wool longtime US patent practitioners, with today 50 years practice… read more →
You have surely seen my little earlier article here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/patent-drafting-how-convert-gray-scale-figure-black-white-schweiger/ which is about to convert a very nasty gray-scale image into a much nicer gray-scale image. Continue reading here.
We all know this problem: an invention disclosure contains a gray-scale computer image. We need to convert it into a black & white line drawing before we can use it… read more →