Medical inventions and technology are often developed to gather and process data more quickly. It can certainly be an advance over old...

Obtaining patent protection for using a computer to gather and analyze data continues to be a challenge - but not impossible. A recent...

Yes, but it remains challenging. The patent laws provide that any new and useful process can be patented. However, laws of nature,...

A design patent protects an article of manufacture. For example, a design patent may cover a chair or even a surgical tool. Your design...

So much of the medical advances today involve a diagnostic test and interpreting the test results. But is the technological advance...

Many innovative and useful medical device inventions sense, gather, and display data. However, those inventions may still not be...

In the past several years, it has no doubt become challenging to patent software inventions. However, it is still possible to obtain patents

The Federal Circuit explained that "'as a general rule preamble language is not treated as limiting.'"

A treatment method that is patentable in the US may not be patentable in Europe. In fact, European patent laws (as opposed to court...

The problem of lack of clinical data to support the scope of patent claims in Europe is a similar problem in the US. Generally, broader...