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Womble Carlyle’s Latest Blog Provides a Front-Row View of High-Tech Patent Law

January 15, 2013

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SILICON VALLEY—Innovation moves at breakneck speed in Silicon Valley—and patent law moves just as quickly to keep pace.
 
Womble Carlyle’s latest blog, The High-Tech Patent Agent: A View from the Trenches in Silicon Valley, covers the ever-changing arena of technology-oriented patents. Womble Carlyle’s presence in Silicon Valley puts the firm in prime position to monitor these developments, and that insider’s perspective will be shared in the new blog.
 
The blog’s first topics include:
 
  • Using drawings in high-tech patent applications
  • Examiner interviews during patent prosecution
  • Software patenting issues
  • Claim amendments in patent applications.
 
The High-Tech Patent Agent: A View from the Trenches in Silicon Valley is authored by Christopher Hall, a patent agent with decades of engineering experience in high-tech fields, and reviewed by IP attorney Mike Gencarella, the Managing Partner of Womble Carlyle’s Silicon Valley office.