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Question by Ronald D: How do I get become patenting?
I do not have money to pay for patent lawyer cost me $ 300 per hour and how will I become patent and payment for the expense of cost fee? Is there any of know link or referral me the right one who accept payment to pay off the cost of total hours of work to finish with patent form and provisional form too? They said I have to do it by myself without help for free? Is that true or what?

Best answer:

Answer by Dave
Ronald…

I have an AWESOME answer for you!!

The answer is YOU CAN DO IT! Congress even WANTS you to patent your idea!

I will also show you how to MARKET your inventive idea so you can make money on it!

Do you know about the Provisional Patent Application? It only costs $ 125 and was designed by Congress to give individual inventors a chance at bringing their inventive ideas to market easily. It is SUPER EASY to do..

To see the top 10 reasons to file a Provisional Patent Application please watch the second video in this blog.

http://www.filepatentapplications.com/blog/

If a provisional patent application looks like the right thing for you to do then take a look at another website that shows EXACTLY how to file one using a video format.

http://provisionalpatentvideo.com/

If you need to know how to get your product sold on TV or to Costco, or Home Depot, or Target and the like then you might also enjoy reading this information by the Ginsu Knife guy! It is pretty cool. He gives you all his contacts and personal email!

http://bit.ly/GinsuKnifeGuy1

Of course you could ALSO just go to the US Patent Office and figure out how to file a patent yourself. Here is the link..

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/index.jsp

The flow chart there is pretty nice to give you an idea how to do what you want to do!

Their patent search is hard to use and you need special programs to look at the patents… Instead, consider using Google Patent Search!

Here is how you can use Google Patent Search to search for an “Oscillating inertial microbalance”

http://www.google.com/patents?id=M5GRAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=Oscillating+inertial+microbalance&hl=en&ei=vrbGTvGeDoXhiAKWpfXxDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Just type the term you want to search for in the search box. Play with MANY variants of your inventive idea.

Also, for a more global patent search look here:

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_EP

Remember… Patents are MOSTLY “Improvements” on other inventions.. So, while you may see something SIMILAR to your inventive idea it does not mean that you cannot patent your IMPROVEMENT.. Example… A tire is an IMPROVEMENT on a wagon wheel. A radial biased ply tire is an IMPROVEMENT on a non radial biased tire. There are over 10,000 patents on tires… Nearly every single one is an improvement!

And… a special gift for you is a sample Non Disclosure (also called an NDA) that you would have folks sign when you show them your inventive idea. You can change it up and use others but if you have NOTHING now it is a very good start written by my lawyer who charged me a TON for it!

http://www.4lowprice.info/images/NDA_GeneralMutual.doc

If you like my answer can you vote on it?

Thanks,

Dave

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Article by Smith Joseph

Copyrights, patents and trademarks have a lot of differences among themselves that has a complete synopsis. Inventors get a proper heads up regarding the rights, intellectual property laws and principles due to this feature. Patents, copyrights and trademarks do have certain differences between them, however, they also have several indispensable features in common. Such fundamental practices and laws are being observed in order to provide value, safety and protection to the invention invented by the original owner. This helps in protecting the illegitimate use of the invention as well as helps in safeguarding the intellectual property rights of the inventor. This is the reason why a professional patent attorney is hired by various inventors nowadays. The three fundamental practices of trademarks, patents and copyrights forms the complete Intellectual property law.Laws related to the patents are considered to be the most multifarious part of the intellectual property rights. A successful and effective patent protection required the advice from a patent attorney and proves significant in valuing the innovation or invention and results into a great profit for the inventor in future. The main focus of the patent attorney is to protect the rights, interests and policies related to the inventor for the product or the material of invention. Creation of a patent by the patent attorney could be as simple as inventing a new design of a pen and as complex as inventing new medicines for the patients suffering from cancer. The product or invention to be patented is first represented to the United States Patent Office by the patent attorney hired for the patenting purpose.

In order to ensure that the invention or the product is a true invention and does not relate to any previously existing invention in terms of its fundamental nature, the United States Patent Office scrutinizes the invention and asks various questions regarding the product.However, obtaining a trademark is much easier than obtaining a patent. Ad brand is another popular name for a trademark. The trademark is a representation, design, logo or symbol pertaining to the service, company product or even an organization. The business or the product is represented by this logo or mark which is protected in order to ensure the safety and security of the product or service. For instance, the logo of American Express – Blue Box is a protected trademark and cannot be used by any other business entity. Henceforth, the ad brand or trademark acts as a protection from illegal use of a service, product, company, business or invention. A trademark therefore epitomizes the product or invention and ensures that it belongs to the inventor who has put in efforts to invent it.

Written credentials, novels, books, magazines or a creative work also requires safety and protection from being used illegitimately. In such scenarios the principle of copyright provides assured protection and safety to the writer or the original inventor. Rights of the inventors who deal in broadcasts, television shows, written matters, radio programs and music are safeguarded by the copyright. The “copyright reserved” information is henceforth seen written on CD’s and subjects pertaining to the written material. The illegitimate use of an invention and protection of inventors rights have been ensured by the three fundamental protection rights – Patent, copyright and trademark.

Article by jianglanbo0607

Nokia (microblogging) today transferred to the Canadian Intellectual Property Company Mosaid about 2000 patents and applications, a move by the two companies to obtain patent litigation and licensing revenue. This part of Nokia’s patents will be transferred to Mosaid newly formed company, the company will not pay the costs associated with Nokia, on the contrary will prosecute potential patent infringement by those who generate revenue for both companies. In June this year, Nokia and Apple on the issue in the patent litigation settlement, Apple agreed to pay a one-time compensation to Nokia, and continue to pay royalties, which reflects Nokia’s strong position in intellectual property. Currently, large technology companies are strengthening their intellectual property strength. Google has just announced recently for $ 12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola’s mobile, which will be about 12,500 patents. The end of June, an investment consortium led by Apple to spend $ 4.5 billion acquisition of Nortel Networks about 6,000 patents. It is unclear whether this means that Nokia will launch infringement proceedings competitors. Insiders said that, given Apple has initiated proceedings to HTC and Samsung, Nokia is likely to take the initiative to the patent litigation initiated by competitors, thereby increasing revenues. Nokia Oye Pera has served 21 years, he will leave at the end of September, a Vision +’s managing partner. Nokia said they would support the latter Vision + investment to develop applications for Nokia mobile phone plans. Vision + matching consumers focus on creating direct application development projects, which will make innovation more quickly into the market. In addition, developers will create and maintain its own intellectual property rights, which will help them to enhance corporate value, but the Vision + products will share revenue. Vision + will have multiple platforms and applications to invest in the game, especially those focused on the integration of games, entertainment and education, health care and health prevention platform. With the Vision + development, Vision + also enter other industries, clean water and energy in exploring the concept of the product. Nokia 1996 Communicator through the issuance of the smart machine models on the market, but in recent years with the rise of the Apple iPhone, Nokia is facing increasing challenges. Nokia low-end mobile phone market share has been eroded ZTE and other Asian brands. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to reverse the momentum of hope on the use of Microsoft’s new system of intelligent machines, intelligent machines that will be released later this year.

Article by Jag Jenny

If you have invented anything new or ideated something very unique, then protecting your work or idea from getting copied becomes needful for the owner. If any person is claiming the ownership of the invention or idea, then inventor’s work or idea has to be legally patented. When it is a new idea or invention, then going for patent registration will be the only way out. Any single thing can be ideated by more than single person, if you are not patenting your idea immediately, then it can be duplicated in no time and ownership can go to some other person, ideating the same idea. So, patenting is the legal right to protect your invention or idea properly. In the patent work, legal ownership of the idea or invention can never be stolen, and only with the permission of the owner, that idea or invention can be copied or recreated. If anyone steals the idea or invention without the permission of the inventor, then that person can be sued and legal owner of the idea or invention can show the patent as the proof of the ownership.

When you want to apply for the patent, you will not get patent registration immediately after the application. This kind of patent process is quite time consuming and hard. People, who are on the desk for checking your application, will go through the details of the application thoroughly. Patent approval will not take place so easily and before it confirms the approval, it will have to go through certain processes.

You can get all the details about the patent services from the internet. Many websites are dedicated to provide all the information about this kind of registration process. When you will download the application from the website, you will fill in the application form after reading and understanding it properly. After you are done with the form fill up work, then your form will go to the patent office. And, your form will be thoroughly verified whether you have given all the information about the idea or work. Once it is cross-verified thoroughly, then it will be sent to those people, who will examine the invention properly. These kind of patent services have different groups of people who are specializing in different dimensions of patenting. Many people from this group will cross-check the invention or idea, which you have explained in the form. But you have generated two ideas, then you should apply for two different registrations.

Question by Richard: As an elected official or candidate, do you realize the importance of an effective Patent System?
If so, what improvements do you propose?

Our founding fathers appreciated the importance of an effective Patent System and also placed high value on all forms of Intellectual Property. The Patent System of the United States, as much as any other factor, has enabled the US to become the economic and technology leader of the world. As far as I know, few current politicians or candidates have said or proposed anything to improve the Patent System, which is key to economic progress. What are your thoughts about this issue?

Best answer:

Answer by Dr. Snark ®
I recognize the importance of an effective patent system. I’m not an elected official though, I’m an internet doctor.

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Article by Attorney Michael Goldstein

On August 22, 2006, Google’s latest patent (#7096214) was approved.  This patent is extremely interesting in light of the recent excitement surrounding social search.  The patent if broken down into its most simplistic form states, Google is going to take their existing algorithm and temper it with shared book marking sites and other trust networks.    The Patent itself is called, “System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results”.  What does this all mean?  If your web site has gained and lost significant ranking over the past month, it is very likely due to your inclusion or not in trust networks, such as links from www.myspace.com, http://del.icio.us, Google Co-op and others.  Though the patent does not go into detail on which sites are trusted sites and which are not, it is likely that the trusted sites are the ones that are being talked about heavily with in the social networking arena.    It is also important to note, that just having a patent approved does not necessarily mean that you must use the patent.   Filing for a patent further does not mean that you have disclosed everything there is to know an invention.  For example, it is common practice to withhold all trade secrets from any patent application, because a patent becomes public knowledge and anyone can read it.  Prior to filing the aforementioned patent application, Google used a computer generated algorithm which did not take human editorial comments or votes into its ranking, with the exception of links from relevant web sites.  The new patent, takes the search results that would appear previously, and then checks to see if any of the sites in the results “relate to a list of favored or non-favored sources”, or whether any of the web sites correspond to at least one major category of favored web sites. The patent makes reference to a plethora of claims.  However, a select few claims express very telling statements.  In claim #3, Google speaks to how it will determine a score of a web site that is not linked to on either favored or non-favored sites using a primary set of logical parameters (the general algorithm).  The claim goes on further to state Google will determine a score for web sites that are referenced by Google’s list of favored or non-favored sites, using that same set of parameters and then takes into account an editorial option, and ranking the final search results based on the score.  This seems to implicate that a web site which is listed on a favored site, and has solid editorial opinions will rank higher than a site which is not referenced by the favored or non-favored sites, even if it is still keyword dense, has great titles and all other factors that has been used in the past to rank a site. In the next few claims the patent backs up claim #3, by stating the editorial opinions cause the rank of those web sites, Flash movies, images etc. that correspond to favored sites to be increased while those corresponding to non-favored sites will be decreased.  Claim #10 goes on to restate how Google will score a web site based on its relationship to a favored or non favored web site and if so, that the ranking will be further fine tuned by an editorial opinion of those favored sites.  The statements about these favored and non-favored sites as well as editorial opinions leads one to believe that Google is simply referring to good and bad neighborhoods, which have been used in the past.  The editorial opinions leads one to believe Google is looking for specific positive or negative content on shared book marking sites and human reviewed directory sites such as Myspace.  Myspace is especially high on this attorney’s list of sites Google may be relying on based on their recent acquisition of ad space on myspace.com. What is the reasoning behind this new patent of Google?  There must be a way to fine tune the results of general searches.  For example, a search for printers will come up with thousands if not millions of results.  Why not utilize the experience of web users, and enhance the ranking of search results by integration editorial opinions into the scoring of web sites, then applying the score of an overall web site to each individual page, which will be relevant to a keyword search.  It appears as if Google has made huge strides in exploiting the social networking craze that is sweeping the SEO world.  Yahoo has already done so, with their local search, Yahoo Answers, Flickr, Trip Planner and other programs, but Google is the one who has come out and actually documented what they are doing and provided search engine marketers a manual of sorts to better optimize their client’s web sites for the most popular search engine on the planet.

Article by Joe Cline

Understanding the differences between patents, trademarks, and copyrights is essential for any creative entrepreneur. A thorough grounding in the concepts and definitions of these basic protections for intellectual property will provide you with a solid basis for protecting your inventions, creative works, and corporate reputation. Enlisting the help of a business attorney is an important step in ensuring your intellectual property is secure, but it’s equally important to inform yourself about the various methods by which individuals and companies can safeguard their creative efforts and protect their financial interests.

Patents

Within the United States, patents are granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventions. A patent offers the holder exclusive rights to an original process, machine, or invention or to any significant improvement to an existing patented process. Patents may be awarded for biological inventions or discoveries, for software processes or programs, for new chemical processes or compounds, and for business processes that are markedly original or unique. Patents do not confer the right to manufacture the invention, but rather prevent others from manufacturing it for a set period of time, usually twenty years. In some cases, a patent holder may not be legally entitled to manufacture the device; this usually occurs in cases where the patent is granted for a significant improvement to an existing patented device. Without obtaining permission from the patent holder for the existing device, the holder of the new patent cannot manufacture the improvement. Such patents are generally either sold or retained until the original patent expires. Patent infringement is a civil matter and is generally pursued through civil lawsuits in the courts.

Trademarks

Trademarks are the easily recognizable symbols and signs of a particular individual, business concern or organization. Trademarks are divided into three categories: unregistered trade marks, unregistered service marks, and registered trademarks. Typically, unregistered trade and service marks are only valid in a limited geographical area; registered trademarks are protected throughout the country in which the trademark was granted. Trademarks are used to identify the makers of products and the providers of services in the consumer market; as such, they are valuable commodities and should be protected against infringement or imitation. Registered trademarks must be obtained through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and offer significantly more legal protection to their holders than other types of trade and service marks.

Copyright

One of the most inclusive and versatile types of intellectual property protections, copyright confers exclusive rights to authors of creative works, including plays, works of fiction, maps, musical compositions, works of art, photographs, motion pictures, dance choreography, architectural blueprints, and software. Unlike patents, copyright does not protect the ideas or concepts within the work, but only the way in which those ideas are expressed. For instance, copyright protections apply to the “look and feel” of certain works of art and software programs, protecting their stylistic elements without protecting the subject matter with which they deal.

Copyright is obtained automatically upon setting the material down in a fixed form such as print, canvas, or digital media. While copyright is the easiest form of intellectual property protection to obtain, it can be the hardest to defend. It is usually advisable to seek legal counsel if you believe your copyright has been infringed in order to protect your creative rights.

Question by Kristin S: Can you get a patent for medical procedures?
If I have an idea for a “new” medical/surgical procedure, is it possible for me to “protect it” and gain some monetary benefit form working with some doctor to develop it as a viable treatment/procedure? How would I document that type of an idea so that it could be “registered” properly to give us the credit for developing it? How would I best enter into some sort of an agreement with some doctor(s) to develop such a procedure and can it be covered in the same way one patents a product?

Best answer:

Answer by surfcities
You can get a patent for anything if you have the time and money.

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Article by Yaly

Zte and huawei, two domestic telecommunication equipment giants open by the end of April, continue to patent post-war low profile. “Economic reference news reporter May 3 sides relevant personage, tried to call for events do know, but at the time of further stop when justice personage, huawei phone still cannot connect; And zte relevant personage says everything to announcement, event if there is further progress, will be the first time through the announcement forms to the information disclosure.

Although both sides of the L T E technology patent lawsuits is no further instructions, but outside of the matter but hot debate constantly. With the economy more than the reference newspaper reporters, analysts say huawei and zte the dispute on the surface is a patent litigation to maintain our own interests, but for future global is behind 4G markets.

Citigroup analysts LiangJia in London with the economic reference newspaper reporter to interview, the huawei and zte that patent dispute between, in fact, reflect the two companies in the international market competition has become increasingly fierce. As a result of this patent disputes around the core of key L T E 4G technology, from a side that huawei and zte are for the future of the global market for 4G launch.

The IT industry to the WangYiJiang, a senior analyst at the reference quote Jackie reporter introduction, zte and huawei sales data shows that the two companies in overseas market, has been expanding in take a positive attitude. And the both sides of disputes related in German, French and Hungary, is the European relatively core’s telecommunications market, relevant operators have announced plans to build commercial LTE network. Infer-if, both the dispute could and future “4G” market has close relationship. Layout

At present, the widely accepted commercial standard is still not out 4G, but one of the candidates as standard T D – L T E technology, has been many famous enterprise look good, including the kingdom of abundant, day this [oCoM o, the D, many international carriers already choose T D – L T E create test network system for commercial operation test. Zte and huawei is thought to have strong competitiveness, and may in future international “4G” market get ahead.

As we have learned, in the telecommunications industry, patent litigation is often as competing method to suppress opponents when use. All parties compete for market patent litigation be, at least reach and opponents are an effective method of cooperation. And as the future commercial process to 4G steadily, manufacturers around the 4G technology between patent dispute will also increasing.

Question by geminiiris81: How do I apply for a product patent?
I do actually have drawings and specifications for my “idea”. Can you tell me anything about the specific forms, process to get a patent without risking someone taking the idea prior to my getting approved for a patent?

Best answer:

Answer by Lt Col USAFR
Go here http://www.uspto.gov/# and click on patents on left hand navigator. All is there. You might want to consider a patent attorney or search firm to make sure your idea is not already patented or applied for.

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