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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When people come into us, we give them a little bit of, kind of patents 101, and we tell them what it’s all about. And even with companies, even sometimes larger companies, we will actually do a presentation, and we want these people to understand what patents are all about. Engineers, for example, often are Read More

You may have seen that a first office action in a patent application is a restriction requirement or an election of species. In an election of species, the patent examiner insists that the patent application contains features or dependent claims to different, such as two or more, inventions. The rule is that a patent can Read More

A design patent is another form of protection when a utility patent is not proper due to the aesthetic appeal of the inventive subject matter. If you have more questions, we suggest consulting with an experienced intellectual property attorney.