A recently filed certificate of correction request was denied in part. The USPTO provided the following explanation for the denial: Period is missing after C (Celsius)/F (Fahrenheit) […]. Also the degree sign should be flush the proceeding number not the “C”. […] This does not conform to our data capture style rules from the USPTO. […]
Many of the application we prosecute start out overseas, mostly in Europe. Over the years we have developed best practices when filing a US patent application best on a foreign priority application. Those are documented in our practice tip:
We recently looked through dozens of design patents that entered the US under the Hague system and went either abandoned or were allowed after amendment. Based on what we have found we prepared a Practice-Tip: US Design Patent Prosecution. The practice tips highlights five common issues that lead to the rejection of a design patent application […]
On May 13th, 2015, the USPTO began accepting Design Patent Applications filed by foreign applicants under the Hague Agreement. WIPO promises four advantages of using the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs: Simplicity and economy. The system was to enable design owners to obtain protection for their designs with a minimum of formalities and […]
US patent application 20170285585 published today. The title of the application sounds promising: “TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESOLVING MORAL CONFLICTS DURING AUTONOMOUS OPERATION OF A MACHINE”. And the introduction is even more promising. It explains that compute systems (such as those used in autonomous cars) can experience a moral conflict for which the hard-coded rules do […]
Bosch is presenting an interesting concept in US patent application publication 20170253114 which published earlier this week. In essence, the Bosch engineers are concerned with the relatively large mass of the battery in an electric vehicle. Which makes sense: The kinetic energy of an object is directly proportional to its mass. So if 30% of an […]
Reading patent applications related to autonomous vehicles reveals interesting differences in thinking. On the one hand are the Silicon Valley players which at times seem to reinvent what the car manufacturers and their tier 1 suppliers have already invented years ago. And on the other hand the traditional OEMs are solving problems that the newcomers […]
Uber is seeking to patent a planar Lidar sensor – with a very broad claim: “A planar-beam, light detection and ranging (PLADAR) system, the PLADAR system comprising: a laser scanner emitting a planar-beam; and a detector array to detect reflected light from the planar beam.” The basic concept is based on a recognition that using […]
Toyota’s patent application publication 20170218862 is one of the more interesting ones published earlier this week. Toyota suggest to predict the need for a vehicle to accelerate and spool the turbocharger in anticipation of such an acceleration. 1. An acceleration event prediction system for a vehicle, comprising: an electronic control unit that is coupled to the at […]
Waymo’s patent application publication US 20170220045 A1 is refreshingly candid: An autonomous car may not get you all the way to your destination since it will only be allowed to travel on pre-approved roads. Waymos answer: “A method, comprising: receiving, by a computer system, an input indicating a final destination, wherein the computer system is configured […]