by Chris Buntel | Dec 15, 2025 | AI & IP, Blog, Intellectual Property & Patent Insights, Trade Secret Strategy
To patent or not to patent, that is the right question. Don’t get us at Tangibly started on “patent vs. trade secret” or “patent or trade secret”. There’s no reason why a creative IP advisor can’t consider both patents AND...
by Chris Buntel | Dec 6, 2025 | AI & IP, Blog
The USPTO issued new inventorship guidance for AI assisted inventions on November 28, 2025, relating to the hot topic of AI-assisted inventions. Please note that this only applies to examiners within the USPTO, and not to courts, congress, other countries’...
by Chris Buntel | Dec 2, 2025 | Blog
Your AI prompt is not enough! In the patent world, it is well settled that merely posing a problem or a challenge is not enough to make you an inventor of the solution. For example, suppose I went to a pharmaceutical company and said “It would be great if there...
by Chris Buntel | Aug 21, 2025 | Blog, Case Law & Industry Trends, Featured Blogs, Guest Author Series
Is the federal DTSA grass always greener? Sometimes yes! Most people think that federal actions under DTSA are basically the same as state actions under UTSA, but that’s an oversimplification. Sure, DTSA was based on UTSA, but occasionally we are reminded that...
by Chris Buntel | Jun 26, 2025 | AI & IP, Blog, Featured Blogs
Defensive publication is a patent strategy that makes it difficult or impossible for competitors to patent on or near what a company is commercializing. The basic idea is that the company publishes online or otherwise a lot of subject matter similar or identical to...
