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there are two legal ways to protect your invention that you want to check before spending thousands of dollars on a patent. But before we in this, you need to understand how intellectual property rights work.

Intellectual property includes patents, trademarks, service marks and copyrights.

A) What is a patent?

A patent allows you to others from manufacturing or selling the invention, but does not grant you the right to an invention or to sell. In general, the notion of a new patent is 20 years, and U.S. patent grants are effective only in the United States.

There are three types of patents:

1) Utility patents for processes, machines, articles of manufacture, composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement of something.

2) design patents for the design and appearance of an invention.

3) Plant patents cover asexually reproduced distinct and new varieties of plants.

A utility patent is the strongest patent inventors can to protect an idea and how it works.
A design patent, although much less expensive, is just the way your invention looks (shape, color, size, etc.), not the right way, and that's why it works.

B) What is a trademark or service mark?

A trademark is a word, name or symbol used to display your products from others. A service mark is the same as a trademark unless it be a provider of a service, not a product.
Trademarks are used to prevent others from using a similar mark, but not in manufacturing or selling the same goods or services.

C) What is a copyright?

The copyright law protects works of authorship: literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, etc. A copyright gives exclusive rights to reproduction of the foundation, to distribute copies, and to perform or the copyrighted work publicly.

A copyright protects the form of expression is incompatible with the object. Such a description of the product can be copyrighted, but someone else could write a similar description, and also the description of your product, then market and sell the product. Copyrights are protected by the Copyright Office Library of Congress.

2 Economic forms of intellectual property protection

Two very economical form of protection, in the beginning of your idea of a briefing and a provisional patent.

A) The disclosure document program can place you in a paper to the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office), called the disclosure document, describing your invention, "as evidence of the date of conception" of your idea. This entry is kept on file for two years, but this is not a patent application, so it will be only minimal protection. In other words, you need to make your invention and prosecution of a patent ASAP. A disclosure filing costs $ 10 at the time of writing this article.

B) The provisional patent application allows you to "patent pending" on your product, you can file for a patent without much bureaucracy, and it allows you to file for a patent in other foreign countries. Filing a provisional patent also allows you to test your idea, find the funding, perfect, establish, retail accounts, etc. However, it is only for 12 months and during that time you need to file a full patent.

According to the USPTO, inventors are strongly encouraged, a provisional patent application instead of a disclosure document. "I recommend this strategy. It is quite useful and only costs $ 80 at the time of writing this article.

Summary of Intellectual Property Rights

Although this gives you a lot of information on intellectual property rights, you are probably more complete information from a patent attorney. There are areas where you are looking for, you can advise, for example, patent writing and contract negotiations.

It is a great deal to learn that you are on your own about the letter of patents simply reading through patents that have been published. You can find this online at www.uspto.gov. Familiarize yourself with this website, it has many tools that will help you learn more about your ideas.

I've learned how to read through the patents patents that have similar products that I mentioned in the development, until I began to recognize and understand the language. This can help if you write your own or a patent attorney to do so. Anyway, you should at least an elementary grasp of how the document.

Regarding the submission of copyrights, trademarks or service marks, these things are as simple as following directions and filling out paperwork. For the trademark or service mark forms, with the USPTO by telephone, mail, or by e-mail. For copyright forms with the Copyright Office Library of Congress.

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Arik Bannister is the owner of CommercialMaker, the leading online video ad production company, helping companies around the world their products and services online and on television. Arik is also the author of the Market University Product Marketing Kit, a complete guide to the manufacture and sale of new inventions.