
A patent is a grant from the US Department of Commerce via the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) which allows an inventor to exclude others from making, using or selling the invention for a period of time in the US and it's possessions and territories.
Sure you can sell your idea without a patent, but if it becomes successful
and others take note of it, say from ads on tv, magazines or newspapers,
what's to stop them from copying your success and cashing in on your hard
efforts in presenting it to the marketplace? Nothing!! If you don't have
any rights to your idea then anyone can copy your success with no compensation
due to you, the originator. Also, if you just go out and sell an idea without,
say a patent search or a patent, you could, even if not done on purpose,
but from sheer ignorance of an existing product similar to yours, the patent
owner of that invention will enforce his rights to exclude you and others
from further sales, use and manufacturer. You risk also being sued for
patent infringement by the rightful party. That is why blindly selling
an idea that you think is yours, and yours alone may not be the case at
all. Check the market, do a patent search or have one conducted by a qualified,
experienced searcher such as STAR RESEARCH COMPANY
and then protect your idea with patents, copyrights and trade marks as
appropriate. Contact a patent attorney, patent agent, again STAR
RESEARCH COMPANY has an experienced team of patent attorneys
and patent agents that can assist you in legal matters.
The parts of a patent application are the specification, the drawings
and the claims.
The specification is the written description of the invention fully
teaching how to make and use the invention without any undue experimention,
ie. fully enabling.
The drawings, when required for understanding of the invention or when
requested by the patent examiner, depicts the invention. These drawings
do not have dimensions nor are they shop drawings, ie. they are not production
drawings. Patent drawings are specially prepared, to exacting patent drawing
standards set forth by the patent office which specifies paper size, character
size and characteristics and shading. STAR RESEARCH
COMPANY has qualified professional patent drafters, and designers
who provide clients patent and design drawings to PTO standards at a reasonable
cost.
The specification ends with the claims..ie. the invention. That is, the claims are what the inventor perceives to be his/her invention. Roughly 50% of patent application drafting by our legal associates is expended in preparing claims that adequately protect the invention. Claim drafting is a specialized art that must be learned after many years of patent practice. It is not recommended that the uninitiated novice inventor attempt to prepare a patent application alone, without having it reviewed by a patent practioner. We can assist inventors in referring them to our associates for all of their patent protection and engineering and patent drawing requirements.
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