Cohn Patent's Blog

First To File

The First Thing to Realize About First to File It’s complicated. That’s not surprising as few laws are as simple as, perhaps, the writers intended them to be, and...


Post Date: April 23, 2013

Trade Secrets

A Little About Trade Secrets Trade secret laws affect almost every business that deals in innovation and creation. A trade secret, generally, is information related to your business or...


Post Date: April 20, 2013

Software Patents

Can You Patent Software? In the United States, at least, yes, you can. A few measures have to be met in order for the software to be qualified for...


Post Date: April 15, 2013

Patent Search

An Inventor's First Task - A Patent Search A professional patent search can be a little expensive, so many inventors opt to do their own. There are a few...


Post Date: April 12, 2013

Inventor Help

When Should You Seek Patent Assistance for Your Invention? Inventors are used to going it alone. It's not unusual to spend hours going over problems, studying issues and using...


Post Date: April 9, 2013

Design Patent FAQ´s: IP Attorney Howard M. Cohn Helps Inventors Protect Product Features, Rights

How an invention looks can be as important as what it does. Over the past few decades, the plethora of content that falls under “Intellectual Property” has radically changed...


Post Date: November 11, 2012

Why You Should Copyright Your Software and Online Applications

Copyright law is the most important legal protection available to software publishers. Here's why. One of the best ways for software authors to protect their work is to register...


Post Date: September 10, 2012

Challenges To Enforceable Patents

There hasn’t been a reform to United States patent law as considerable as the American Invests Act (AIA) since 1952. One of the AIA’s most noteworthy components is...


Post Date: August 4, 2012

Dangers of Innovative Trade Secrets & Design Concepts – Protection by Patent Attorney Howard M. Cohn

Are you protecting the innovative secrets that set you apart from the competition? Ideas, industry trade secrets, and innovative design concepts are some of the most important factors that...


Post Date: July 21, 2012

Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Patents

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), part of the United States Commerce Department, has published a Federal Register titled Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for...


Post Date: June 20, 2012