In the old days, inventors were required to hand-deliver their working prototypes to the physical USPTO offices, quite unimaginable in the age of the Internet. This also led to many patent attorneys renting expensive office space near the USPTO headquarters. Those days are mostly gone but you will still find big players basing themselves in […]
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Provisional patents can be a valuable avenue for inventors and startups in the first-inventor-to-file system, but there are inherent risks if not done carefully and methodically. These risks are often not explained carefully enough by low cost document preparation companies that push these types of patents. In my following video, I offer further details about
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While it’s not mandatory to conduct a patent search prior to proceeding with a patent, it’s a useful first step to find out if your idea is actually unique. While there are instances where you may wish to skip this step, failure to do so could actually end up costing you money if someone else
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There are some risks to conducting Google patent searches online, one of them being that certain marketing companies track and monitor keyword searches, potentially allowing an employee to steal your idea without you ever knowing how this came about. Watch my video for the full story!
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In this video, I get to the bottom of why there is NO requirement that an inventor make a prototype in order to get a patent. While in the old day inventors did need to physically cart their invention over to the U.S.P.T.O, this is no longer the case as everything is filed online. In
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Sure, the Internet has given inventors the power to file patents themselves without the help of a board certified attorney. But, boy, can things go wrong with this approach including easily choosing wrong keyword associations when doing your initial patent search. Let’s review some of the risks of this approach…
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