patent of invention

patent of invention
patent numbers are in sequence, starting with number one. Patent number one was to Samuel Hopkins in July 31.1790. It took 75 years for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to issue patent number 1000000 . patent number 7000000 was February 14, 2006. It took only seven years for the USPTO to the issuance of patent number 6000000 on 7000000th

What does this mean? Simply, there is more creativity now that at any time in history. The old saw that "there is nothing new" is completely wrong. It has never been so many people and organizations that are creating new, unique products, technologies and services, and so driven to commercialize these inventions. More patents and entrepreneurs try to sell their products is significant that there is more competition for a successful placement.

It is important for entrepreneurs to protect their inventions. This is a form of insurance. At trial, an invention without having to work with the sign of the patent, trademark, copyright or trade secret protection on a flippant approach that will not succeed. Investors, operators and investors are demanding the protection of intellectual property that these products provide. Even if the entrepreneur is self-market the invention, the protection is crucial in order to fend off competition.

A pharmacist in Atlanta, at the beginning of the 20th Century, a formula for syrup that he sold in the soda fountain in his pharmacy. John Pemberton syrup mixed with mineral water and beverages sold it as a wellness drink to cure pain. Mr Pemberton had Coca-Cola. He had never expected that Coke would become an international product-comfort, the soft drink. The smartest thing John Pemberton always have done, in addition to Coca-Cola to invent, to the secret formula for the syrup as a trade secret. To this day, the Coca-Cola Bottling Company zealously protects the ingredients and chemicals used in the production of syrup, that the basis is the essence of the classic Coca-Cola.

Big Boy restaurants to protect the recipe for tartar sauce, to their sandwiches, and that many customers of the bottle to buy and take home. McDonalds stubbornly protects the process of their restaurants use to cut, cook and season their fries. William Wrigley was just as manic in his secret technique for implementing highly seasoned, long-lasting, chewing gum.

Trade secrets generally are not able to patent protection. The novelty of the trade secret is in the mixture, the chemical used or chronology, to the finished product. If you have a recipe as you wish, that this knowledge in the area, as it can become very expensive. If the public knew that the formula for Coca-Cola, there might be a lot of consumers interested in their own beverages at home. Coke would not be so!

If your product has the potential and the need to seek a trade secret, you will want to follow some very basic steps. First, write down every event in the context of developing the formula. A logbook with the data, data and details of your work. As you finalize your development memorialize all of the steps essential to the finished product that you want to keep in a secret recipe or summary. Then store in a very safe place (safe deposit box or safe) all of the work of the product and the recipe or formula.

The Trade Secret Asset Value incredible gains when the product into a market success. Sale of a company on a fully protected Trade Secret exponentially increases the value of the company. Coca-Cola, Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, Oil of Olay, Schlitz, Dom Perignon, Ben and Jerry's and Estee Lauder Youth Dew are just some examples of well-known brands to a trade secret.

A brand is important in the development of awareness of the brand of a product. Use a patent attorney in the approach to the highly specialized field of trademark search. I have never seen an entrepreneur successfully navigate the complex workings of the USPTO. I have made many attempts to complete the process, all resulting in complete failure.

The content of a trade mark may be a customized, identifying symbol, stylized "brand name" and a branding statement. Nike uses the famous slash (symbol) of the Company name (recognizable stylized script) and "Just Do It!" (Branding statement). Add all the elements that the public recognizes the application in your mark.

Check out at local, regional, national and international companies and brands that you see every day. Pat's Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia is a local business, has great brand recognition and reputation, and protects its brand with a brand. It is a destination for visitors to Philly. Chanel, the French haute couture brand that is internationally appreciated and the classic "C" adorns that each unit of product from Chanel is one of the best known brand icons in the world. Truly Nolen, the National Pest Removal Service, trademark mouse ears seen on every piece of sales collateral, advertising and service vehicle of the company are used.

If a brand is a commitment to police and protect the mark assigned. The inclusion of ™ on every unit of product is essential. Also consult a lawyer. Brands can move freely and accidentally lost.

Copyrights are used to protect intellectual property. Movie content, poetry, music, books and games are copyrighted. We have with our clients on a range of video and board games. We are always the copyright rules and / or playback functions of the game.

Recently, Dan Brown, author of the wildly successful book "The Da Vinci Code", was for plagiarism by the British authors a book about the search for the Holy Grail. The search for the Holy Grail is central to the plot of "The Da Vinci Code." There are extensive library shelf for the search for the mystical Holy Grail. And yet, in the run-up to the movie release of "The Da Vinci Code" is a legal measure, which began this intellectual property. Brown and his publisher vigorously defended their rights under their copyright. You have full confirmation of the court.

Producers of intellectual content properties (film studios, record companies, book publishers) are very hesitant to accept unsolicited proposals for a review. "The Da Vinci Code" saga is the reason. The legal process is widespread in the field of intellectual property. We all remember things that we saw, heard or seen from afar, but dim past. Regurgitating a deviation from this experience can have its way onto the written page. Voila, this material has been plagiarized?

Mattel and Hasbro is not a review of the applications outside of toys. Is it no coincidence that this is not the breakthrough introduction of toys in the years of Hasbro and Mattel? This is one of the unfortunate byproducts of a litigious society, the restrictions necessary for innovation. Protect your intellectual property with a copyright.

I recommend my clients, before spend dime on a patent that they have a superficial search in USPTO.Gov site by any obvious keywords for their invention. If a number of patented products, and they are spot on their idea, the object can not be considered a candidate for registration. If the field seems open and clean, then I recommend the cessation of the patent, a professional, thorough search. The thorough search to confirm the potential for a successful patent protection.

Patents are the preferred method of protection for most inventors and entrepreneurs. Patents (utility) are very powerful players in the defense against robbers, thieves and knock off artists. Not as a farmer, but also use the services of a patent attorney. I am always amazed and amused by how many people think they can successfully write a very specific 3-D CAD technology, a file with the USPTO objections and move the patent through the maze of federal government bureaucracy. Go figure! You time and money, and usually deny any opportunity to re-patent successfully for a patent with the number.

The provisional patent application is basically a letter that is on file with the USPTO. The provisional registration, the USPTO advises the description of the product that you try to develop. The letter has a one-year life cycle and must end with a formal patent application (utility or design) or the product is always free.

We use the provisional patent to be completely legal way to declare that a product in the early stages of development is patent pending. This application is also very inexpensive compared to a design patent or utility model. A provisional patent applications, it is also possible that entrepreneurs will have one year time window to test and measure the market reaction to the invention. If reaction is positive, then the necessity of continuing to devote assets to the development of the opportunity.

The design patent art includes features easy to use. This is the weakest form of patent protection. A competitor just a design element, cosmetic function to add craftsmanship or a variant, a design patent. However, for products, the real commercial potential, but can not be overcome before the existing art product utility for a patent, design patent offers a potentially important advantage: the possibility that a product is in the current Patent Pending status.

We did this on a number of occasions. A simple modification of the original application means that a bureaucrat at the USPTO must find the file, take them on, insert the amended application details and re-log the submission. As a result of the application goes to the back of the line, and we win months More Patent Pending protection.

Why should you be satisfied? If a patent pending product in the mode has ultimate protection. If a patent number is that the clock starts ticking on the effective lifetime of protection and the details of the novelty of the patented product has become publicly known. Your product is off. It is amazingly simple, the less than scrupulous off artists Engineer inventions around your unique characteristics and advantages.

By including a patent pending product in the balance, we believe that the functions wrapped by a public awareness campaign. This often leads to an initial advantage on the market and competition is only known that there is a patent pending. The additional time that the product is to build and expand revenue traction, and begin the branding process is exponentially more valuable than the legal fees in order to add supplements to the basic design submission. You want to be the first on the market, and have as much time as possible to stand alone in a market.

The utility patent is extremely valuable, as a shield against the competition and as an asset. The invention, a utility patent from the USPTO is potentially of interest to licensees, partners, investors and venture capital. Most patented products (utility), but never on the market. We often see that are new inventions, patents, and thus possible, but not commercially, or necessary or useful. We all know, a crazy scientist or two, with endless designs, inventions and patents, none of which ever become a success.

The utility patent protects the advanced features and benefits that the application describes in detail. The patent attorney will tell the special features of your invention. You will also have other patents in the vicinity of your room, but carefully note the differences on your invention. In addition, major efforts are focused on creating 3-D Computer Assisted Design art shows that your product from all possible angles, and graphically shows the uniqueness of your product.

Utility Patent Applications rarely sail if the USPTO, without being questioned. A competent patent agents are often expect the weakness in an application and has a coat of retorts ready for the auditors concerns and questions. This re-directs the file back into the bureaucracy at the USPTO. I tell my customers that they can expect up to a 18-month wait before it a communication from the USPTO decision. However, on several complex applications that I have ever seen the process up to six years.

Believe me, it's worth the work, the waiting time and the investment, if a successful outcome achieved from the USPTO. A utility patent gives Gravitas. The invention is up to the strictest scrutiny has been attached and the most desired verdict: This invention has to import.

Geoff Fick was a serial entrepreneur for almost 50 years. As a small boy, earning his money doing odd jobs in the neighborhood, he learned the value of selling himself, offering service and value for money.

After the University of Kentucky (BA Broadcast Journalism, 1969) and in the United States Marine Corp, Mr. Fick began a career in the cosmetics industry. After rising to National Sales Manager for Vidal Sassoon Hair Care at the age of 28, then a number of companies, including Rubigo Cosmetics, Parfums Pierre Wulff Paris, Le Bain Couture and Fashion Fragrance.

Mr. Fick and his consulting firm, Duquesa Marketing, Inc. (http://www.duquesamarketing.com), with the support of large and small companies, domestic and international, entrepreneurs, inventors and students in the development of new products, investments, licenses , marketing, sales and business plans and successful implementation of his customized strategies. He is a Senior Fellow at the Page Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Business School, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.