Again, the most conservative advice is to keep it secret for as long as you can. A lot of people can’t do that or don’t want to do that, so then at least file a patent application. The lesser step is at least file a provisional patent application, so at least you can record the Read More
The most conservative advice is to wait until your patent issues before you try to market it. Because what will happen is, when people see it, if they think it’s really valuable, they’ll go to their patent attorney. And their patent attorney will say, this is not patented right now. You can copy it until Read More
One must be very careful about not going to so called invention marketing firms because what these people love to do is write up your invention, send it out to manufacturers all across the country or across the world. And what happens then is that you, not being familiar with the patent system, unknowingly have Read More
What I would say is if you’re an individual inventor, you’re in a business, you have a job, you’re doing whatever you’re doing, and you come up with an invention, it’s always our suggestion not to change your life and go try to sell this item out of the trunk of your car. The best Read More
You have to be very careful when you market an item, about what names you put on the item. For example, in sports, we have, several clients have had a problem with marketing because they’ll put on University of Miami or whatever it is. And in fact, most of these schools will actually license you. Read More
We probably get more walk in people with automobile inventions than anything else, and 99 percent of the time it’s been done before. So just like any other product, what we have to do is a search and we have to make sure that it has not been done before. And again, with any other Read More
Patents cover the making, using, selling, and importation of products and methods used to make those products. In a car, there are thousands of parts. Many of them, of course, are covered by patents. Many of them are not. So, before you go and make something, for example, by 3D printing or any other method, Read More
OEM is an Original Equipment Manufacturer, for example, an automobile manufacturer, which is different from someone that’s making replacement parts. You cannot make a replacement part if the original part is still under patent protection from the OEM. Down the road, of course, when the patent expires, you can do it. For example, there are Read More
There was a case years ago, I believe it had to do with Monroe shock absorbers, where they wear out, of course, and you go to a mechanic to have new shocks put in, and what happens to the old ones? So someone decided that they’re not that complicated, they could buy up the old Read More
A copyright protects the intellectual creative works of authors, such as books, movies, music, software, paintings, photographs, and many, many other types of work. A copyright application is filed with the Copyright Office. The application contains basic information, such as the name and address of the author, the date the work was created, and most Read More