Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office Author: Attorney Pressman David | Language: English | ISBN:
B009HYPIL6 | Format: EPUB
Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office Description
Patent your creation with the world's bestselling guide to patents!
Have a world-class idea? Ready to protect your invention from copycats? Then turn to the best resource available --
Patent It Yourself.
Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you:
determine if you can patent your invention
understand patent law
evaluate the commercial potential of your idea
perform your own patent search
file a provisional patent application
prepare a formal patent application
respond to patent examiners
amend an application
enforce and maintain your patent
market and license your invention
Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in intellectual property law, this edition provides the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules and forms. It includes up-to-date discussions of the new "first to file" rule, which promises to revolutionize patent law.
Whether you're new at the inventing game or a grizzled veteran, Patent It Yourself will save you grief, time and money.
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- Publisher: NOLO; 16 edition (August 16, 2012)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B009HYPIL6
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I've often heard good things about Nolo Press books, but this is the first one I've had and I'm blown away by its comprehensiveness. It's essentially a ream of paper containing everything from Patent 101 (the types of patents) to applying, documenting, enforcing your intellectual property.
It's very up to date - discussing the new patent laws put in place in fall of 2011, some of which kicked in just weeks ago.
It's written in a fairly casual, easy to read style, but you have to be focused - it's not a Dummies' book filled with cartoon figures and lots of white space and clip art. It's more of a textbook, albeit one with numerous diagrams, examples, flowcharts, and samples of all the forms related to your patent pursuit. The author is encouraging, but also honest, explaining how it is not likely that a patent is a road to quick riches.
I particularly enjoyed the information related to internet Domain names, and computer software. I like how the author honestly explains the differences between patents and copyrights - the latter of which are quicker, easier to get, and longer-lived but do not always provide as broad of a scope.
Some other interesting things I learned: I had never realized that (in most cases) you can't document your invention with photographs. At a minimum, you have to scan and trace a photo such that it appears more like a diagram from a draftsman. And one of the introductory items that struck a chord with me was understanding that the term "patent protection" is not really accurate. A patent is purely an offensive mechanism for going after infringers, but it offers no "protection" unto itself. He refers to this as "offensive rights".
This book will be invaluable whether you use an attorney for your patent or not. My experience is that even if you are working with an attorney, you are going to have to guide him and it will be extremely helpful for you to understand the process.
If you have not gone through the process, this will take a lot of study, though. However, the book is very thorough so it has everything in it you need to be successful. Remember, you are saving a LOT of money, so your payback will be quite substantial. One reviewer wrote that his attorney told him it would cost $5,000 to file for a patent. From what I have seen, that is a low estimate. The cost will go up very time the patent office comes back with objections or questions plus it is dependent on a relatively straight forward patent search. Also, if your patent is at all complicated to write, it will cost more. I am a co-inventor on a patent that cost my company $80,000 to get granted, but it was a pretty complicated patent. Later, we modified the patent to incorporate some new ideas and added to the bill.
Here are some suggestions to keep in mind as you go through the book:
Get the full text of some patents that are in the same category and of a similar complexity to yours and study them to see how they are written. There is a style of writing a patent that you need to follow. Some legalese, and a particular method of describing the invention. You can get these texts free off of the Internet now.
One aspect of the writing style that seems unnecessary to many people is the way the the "embodiment" is described multiple times with slight variations in it each time. The idea is to think of as many ways to implement the same idea as possible and include them in the description.
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