Vampiric Design Patents

We're here with some fun for you as you get ready for Halloween--check out these not so spooky vampire design patents!

Compare Every Version of a Claim with the Patent Workbench™ Reader Claims Matrix

Don’t you wish you had a way to be able to see the entire history of each claim within a patent prosecution history without having to manually prepare all of that work yourself?

The Claims Matrix tab within the Patent…

Patents on Mars

Have you ever wanted to get away? Really far away? We show you some of the patents related to NASA space travel to Mars, in this scientific and whimsical post!

Google Adds Cross-Lingual Support and Secure Search

We discuss what this means for the future of prior art search using Google...it's good news. More results for non-English speakers and finally a secure environment by default for Google users!

Over at the Intellogist Blog we take a look at a couple of

Google Patent Search Improvements

Are they enough to get your attention and back to using Google Patent? Did you ever leave?

Thanks for reading!

Subsidiary Search: An Introduction

We lay out the basics of searching for subsidiaries and corporate trees in a way you can understand--with help from Val Kilmer and Wilmer Valderrama (in a way)!

PATINEX 2011 Lessons Learned from Seoul, Korea

We take a look back at PATINEX 2011 to learn some lessons about the future of the USPTO from US CAFC Chief Judge Randall R. Judge Rader and USPTO Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea-increased hiring and some interesting best practices going forward!