Patents provide a great deal of protection and increased enforcement for inventors. But before you get that patent you have to go through application process. Depending on what kind of patent you want, it could cost a few thousand dollars and take years to receive. And none of that is refundable. To avoid wasting time [...]
Industrial design rights are obtained when you get a design patent. This type of patent protects the aesthetic value of something with a practical purpose. A design patent is one of the strongest protection you can get for your product, but it is also more challenging more to get. The design patent itself requires a [...]
A Patent application is a set of documents an inventor files with the patent office in hope of obtaining patents. There are "provisional patent application" and "non-patent application". It would be slightly less accurate but also slightly clearer, to refer to a provisional patent application as an "informal" patent application and non-provisional patent application as [...]
Intellectual Property is one of the most prized possession of any business. However if you are a small business protecting it might be a challenge. There are several reason for this,but the biggest one is financial. Patenting inventions is extremely expensive starting at $530 just for filing and processing the patent, with further $300 [...]
The Best mode requirement is one of the three written description requirement found in section 35 U.S.C. 112, the other two are the enablement requirement and written description requirement. The best mode requirement still exists through American Invent Act, has largely removed any preference relating to the claimed invention. The Best Mode Requirement historically created [...]
It is very important for inventors to understand that there is reluctance among some patent attorney's to take on independent investors' as clients. This is at least in parts because some independent inventors take up extraordinary amount of time and rarely convert into clients. Even if they do convert into clients many want to pay [...]
