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Inventors should review hiring a top tier patent attorney, versus filing on their own or even worse doing nothing to protect their most important asset.
An article about patent filing options outside of the United States.
Second in a series of articles on business method patents.
Overcome the barriers of making money from your revolutionary idea. The 4 barriers that stand in your way of obtaining a patent and selling it.
An article on how to get a patent.
Last in a series of articles on obtaining business method patents.
According to the law, only the inventor may apply for a patent, with certain exceptions. If a person who is not the inventor should apply for a patent, the patent, if granted, would be invalid. Further, the person who falsely states that he/she is the inventor in the Declaration or Oath which is submitted with the application would also be subject to criminal penalties.
An article about the early history of the United States Patent Office.
Once you have your product developed it's time to decide if a patent is worth the trouble. Although in theory, all good ideas should be protected by a patent. Consider the protection however as only the right to allow you to claim the technology, product or ideas as your own. YOU get to do all the protecting. So if you develop a product then someone steals the idea and goes into competition with you, you have the right to sue and defend your patent rights.
So you have an idea or design that you think no one else has ever had. You want to move forward on the idea, but you also don't want anyone to copy your idea. What do you do? You need a patent.
There is one kind of home business that is very different to any other: that of the inventor. If you've invented something, the chances are that you don't have the resources to mass-produce it yourself - you'll be needing to send the plans and designs off to someone else to make in their factory. When you do this, though, how can you protect your idea against theft by them, or anyone else who might see it? The answer is patent registration.
An article about making your own patent drawings.
One of the first things to do when you have an idea is to write it down. Documentation is the most important step you can make to in securing future rights to your idea. The documentation needs to be in a tight bound or engineering type notebook. These are like a basic school notebook that pages cannot be added. It's also a good idea to get a notebook that it's also difficult and noticeable if any pages are removed.
Always looking for a new potential marketing forum, Google is thinking outside of the box again. It recently filed a patent application for digital billboards.
An article about the alternative to getting a patent.
If you’ve got that great once-in-a-lifetime idea, take some steps to protect it. In the U.S. it’s the first one to think of an idea, not the first to patent. So protect it today, someone else could think of it tomorrow...
First in a series of articles on business method patents.
Or is it that inventors make great engineers? Either way, they go hand-in-hand.
Engineers of virtually any specialty get paid to experiment with the technologies of today and add in improvements of their own. In the process, they often create new, useful inventions that may be eligible for a patent.
Inventing and materializing an idea is a very fulfilling activity for creative individuals. Learn what to do to protect your idea and patent your creation.
If you've created something unique and something you believe to be marketable the subject of patents should be of immense interest to you. Without a patent your idea could be stolen from you. With a patent in place the concept, and its financial rewards, are yours for a minimum of 17 and a maximum of 20 years.
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