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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

With regard to confidentiality, one must understand that there’s no right to stop someone from copying your invention until your patent actually issues. Even after you file your patent application, even after the application is published by the patent office, you still cannot enforce it. And we give this advice to people. We can’t tell Read More

Well, there certainly is a lot of back and forth with the patent office, dealing with examiners, sometimes by telephone, most of the time in writing, but the art of a patent application is the drafting of the claims, and this is so important, and I think that local inventors, small inventors don’t really understand Read More

An inventor is someone who has taken part in either the concept or the reduction to practice that is the making of an invention, which is completely different than ownership. Most inventions, in fact, are not owned by the inventor. The inventor is most likely an engineer that works for a big company and he’s Read More