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People come into our office and they present an invention and they say, this has never been done before. And then of course, we have to evaluate who they are and how well they know the industry and the products. So generally they’ve gone to the store, they’ve gone to Home Depot, they’ve looked on Read More

What’s the extent of coverage of a U.S. patent? As with anything patents are territorial, a patent will cover, or I should say a U.S. patent will cover the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico. People ask me, is there such a thing as an international? Now, I stress the word patent because Read More

There are companies that are built on patents, especially small companies, that are trying to develop in the field. For example, based on a particular product or, a product line, and patents are extremely important for them because patents are value, it’s, an intellectual property is property. Just as though the company owned a car Read More

If I provide you all the background information of what your competitors are doing, you can compare that to what you’re doing and you can actually improve your particular product based on what you see the ideas other people are doing and you can compare it to what you have. So not only do you Read More

A new inventor comes on into my office and said, “here’s my idea, what’s the first thing I should do?” And I tell the inventor, “of course, you write it up, you give me your drawings. But the first thing you want to do is you want to have a patent search done.” Unfortunately, patent Read More

Yeah, it’s a draftsman, but it’s a patent draftsman, because the requirements are quite different, especially with regard to designs. If you have a product, this table for example, you would need to show a view of it from every angle. The top, the bottom, the sides, and a perspective, so that somebody can see Read More

And we have draftsmen that we work with, that we’ve worked with for many years. They keep the invention, of course, confidential. They work for us. They do drawings for both utility and design patents, and design patent drawings have to be done in a specific way. There’s certain kind of shading, certain types of Read More

So who files a provisional application? Somebody who’s really worried that they’re in a rapidly developing technological area and that he has lots of competitors. He hasn’t quite developed his product, to the product part, but he’s got the idea down. So he wants to instantly at least get as much information as he can Read More

People bring in models sometimes, it’s really not necessary. The patent office doesn’t require them. Hundreds of years ago they did. It’s something that’s not done now. However, what’s very nice is CAD drawings. For example, some people come in with them, other people, particularly independent inventors may bring in something that they’ve made at Read More