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1). Using an Invention Submission Company to Submit Your Invention
You hear them on late night television, newspapers and magazines, even the radio and the internet. The ad goes something like this, “Hey inventor, call our toll free number and we’ll help you protect your idea and get rich quick”.
2). Patents and Fees: An Overview
Gaining a patent on your invention can be an expensive undertaking. From beginning to end, here are the basic fees you will need to be prepared to pay. Please realize that many others may crop up depending on how complex the prosecution becomes for your patent.
3). What Do We Mean by Patent Prosecution?
The prosecution of a patent includes the procedures that follow after a regular patent application is filed.
4). Inventors... Make Sure Your Invention is a Success!
Discover some of the important strategies all inventors should know to help ensure that their invention is a success.
This list of tips was compiled from successful inventors. They are sure to steer you in the right direction and help you ensure success for yourself...
5). Getting Into Graduate School
The GRE General Test is the most widely accepted college admission exam for graduate school. This test strives to measure the knowledge that test takers have gained over long periods of time (like through their undergraduate programs).
6). Checking Credentials Before Hiring Anyone to Help You Patent Your Invention
Many businesses make more than a decent living helping inventors just like you make money from their inventions. From filing a patent to licensing and marketing your invention, someone is around every corner offering assistance.
7). How to Invent Something Sure to be Profitable
Are successful inventors just lucky or is there a strategy for coming up with these golden ideas?
8). Manufacturing Your Invention
Unless you’re able to license your invention right away, you will need to seek out invention manufacturing services. It is possible that even if you do license your invention, you will still be responsible for finding an adequate manufacturer.
9). If You’re a Struggling Scientist, a Shortcut to a Lucrative Career in Patent Law Awaits You
An article at CNN lists academic research scientists as one of the top three “Big jobs that pay badly”. The article states that this career track has “one of the most disproportionate ratios of training to pay”.
10). The In’s and Out’s of Gaining a Patent
Please note that there is more to gaining a patent than just filing an application and waiting. It is possible that this is all you will have to do, but unlikely. Once a patent application is sent in to the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), it will be assigned to a patent examiner.
11). The Beginnings of a Quality Patent Search
Hopefully you realize that before you do much of anything, you need to look at the marketability of your invention.
Remember, you don’t want to do anything until you have a good feel for whether or not you can actually make some money from your invention. Of course, you can’t ever determine with 100% accuracy if you will make money or how much, but you can gain an idea by looking at other products available in the marketplace.
12). Patent Practitioners: Separating the Good from the Bad
If you choose to hire a patent practitioner, they will help you throughout the complex patent process. You may even consider granting them power of attorney over your patent application.
13). The Inventor’s Dilemma
So you’ve done your homework (or are planning on being diligent about it at least). And you’ve decided to definitely forge ahead and gain a patent on your invention. So now what? Well, first of all, be warned that patenting your invention will cost you several thousand dollars. The fee varies widely; you will ultimately need to receive an estimate from the professional you choose.
14). How to Handle Patent Infringement?
Who will be there when things go wrong?
Due to the trouble, expense and the risks involved with gaining a patent, you might be lulled into thinking that the government will be there to lend you a helping hand when it comes time to enforce the rights your patented invention.
15). So You’ve Invented Something, Now What?
So you’ve invented the next big thing (or at least something that may solve a problem for a select group of people)? Now what?
16). Getting Your Patent Application Facts Straight
Even if you choose to use a patent agent or attorney to help you protect your invention, you will still have some work to do. After all, it’s your invention. And they need you to communicate the in’s and out’s of it as best you can.
17). The Topic of Patentability
For an object or idea to be patentable, it must fit into one of the following four categories; process, manufacture, machine or composition of matter. The subject matter must also be original, an unmodified, previously existing invention is never patentable. There must be a significant improvement over previous inventions for the new one to qualify. If two previous inventions are combined together, the combination must yield new and unexpected results for the invention to be considered patentable.
18). Short Guide to Patent Protection and Patentability
What can be protected?
Determining what qualifies as a patentable invention is a highly difficult and complicated task. Patent laws state that “Anything under the sun that was invented by man qualifies as patentable”. Simple enough, but if you notice, there are hundreds of pages full of exceptions and details on the idea of patentability following this phrase. Scores of appeals and patent court cases have arisen due to questions regarding patentability because it still hasn’t, and probably never will be entirely pinned down.
19). Detailed Patent Search Tutorial
You can get a reasonable patent search for a few hundred dollars. An in-depth comprehensive search will cost more (around a $1,000).
But before you spend any money at all applying for a patent, reducing your invention to practice, or building an expensive prototype, you can start searching around all on your own.
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