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Diament Patent Law
Adam Diament, J.D., Ph.D.
(Now practicing at Nolan Heimann LLP)
Read the blog transcripts of the podcast episodes below.
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Can You Patent Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge from Indigenous People? Episode 144
What Does It Mean to Patent Traditional Knowledge or Genetic Resources? First, let me clarify what this topic doesn’t mean. You can’t...
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4 min read
New Design Patent Application Obviousness Test. Episode 143
Background and the Rosen-Durling Standard About two months ago, I did a podcast episode about the possibility that the test for...
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4 min read
What is the Printed Matter Doctrine and Why You Can't Patent Your Book. Episode 142
Introduction to the Printed Matter Doctrine In this episode, I’m talking about a doctrine in patent law called the printed matter...
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4 min read
Why I Like Phone Calls From the 571 Area Code. Episode 141
Why This Topic? This might seem like a strange topic, but I decided to include it because I recently saw a call come through from a 571...
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3 min read
What is Analogous Art for Patents? Episode 140
What Is Analogous Art? We’re continuing our legal adventure into the world of patents, specifically focusing in this episode on a concept...
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4 min read
How Do I Know If My Design Is Patently Obvious? Episode 139
Design Patent Basics I’m going to talk about an interesting case that has come up in design patent law . I’ve done several other episodes...
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4 min read
How to Use the New Government Trademark Search Website. Episode 138
Patent Center and Now Trademarks A few episodes ago, I talked about how the government created a new website for searching patents,...
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5 min read
New Beginnings. Episode 136
A New Chapter Begins “New Beginnings” is the name of this podcast episode. If you got my newsletter—which I just sent out today—you know...
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2 min read
The New Patent Office Patent Center. Episode 135
Recap of Public PAIR If you listened to Episode 129—as I’m sure you have—that episode was about Public PAIR. PAIR stands for Patent...
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3 min read
What is Patent Insurance and Do I Need it? Episode 134
Two Types of Patent Insurance The first thing to know is that there are essentially two types of patent insurance: offensive insurance...
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3 min read
What Is the Patent Office Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response Pilot Program? Episode 133
Background on USPTO Pilot Programs The Patent Office is always trying out different kinds of pilot programs to streamline procedures or...
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5 min read
What's Better? Trade Dress Protection or Design Patent Protection? Episode 132
What Is Trade Dress? Let’s start with a couple of definitions. Trade dress falls under the same laws as trademarks. It protects the...
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6 min read
Can I Patent a Card Game? Episode 131
Connection to Board Games In the last episode, I talked about patenting a board game, and many of the same concepts apply when it comes...
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3 min read
Can I Patent a Board Game? Episode 130
Patenting Unique Types of Inventions I’m going to have a series of episodes about patenting certain kinds of things that maybe you didn’t...
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4 min read
How to Review the History of a Patent Application – Using Public PAIR. Episode 129
(This episode first aired in 2021. Significant changes have been made since then and patent file histories are reviewed through the new...
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9 min read
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