How a Federal Court’s Ruling on the Standard for Obviousness May Affect an Inventor’s Rights By: Nayyer Siddiqi A three-judge panel in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made an interesting decision recently related to an inventor’s ability to protect their innovations. More specifically, the decision pertains to the different standards for “obviousness” between utility patents and design patents. Why this may be relevant to inventors is something we counsel our clients in the process of patent protection work. As background, there are two basic types of patents: a utility patent and a design patent. In…
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Quinn IP Law Sponsors Patent Pathways
Quinn IP Law is proud to join forces with Patent PathwaysTM, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to increasing the number of minority patent practitioners. A current focus of Patent PathwaysTM is an underrepresented group in patent law: Black women. According to the Patent Pathway’sTM website there are 49,312 registered patent practitioners and only 1,085 racially diverse women registered as patent practitioners. The program strives to facilitate the registration of 50 Black women with the patent bar annually. The program is open to engineering or science graduates, law school students with engineering or science degrees, or practicing engineers or scientists considering a…
The Power of “Indigenuity”
The Intersection of Ingenuity and Indigenous Sciences Cruz Tecumseh Collin is on a mission to heal the world. And if early progress is any indication, he very well may. At the age of 19, Cruz, an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, has a dream “to help Indigenous Peoples lead the world toward a sustainable future through the implementation of our sciences and traditional knowledge.” His inspiring, innovative initiative is called “Sustainably Powering Rural Native Communities,” and Cruz recently received a $20,000 Dreamstarter grant to “build and test a modified solar technology that is sustainably produced and is not…