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Patent Attorney Services: 4 Essential Steps to Success

So What Does A Patent Attorney Services Do?

This blog will necessarily be very general, as there is no one definition of a patent attorney, and no one determinator of what that attorney does. Some specialize in little known areas, others concentrate on various parts of the patent application process, others specialize in a certain industry or venue. There are some basic steps that almost all inventors and creators must take to receive a patent, and it's in these areas that many patent attorneys practice.

Patent Searches

A patent search is first on the list before writing a patent application for...

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Intellectual Property Protection: 3 Vital Steps for Ideas

Intellectual Property Protection An Idea is a Beautiful Thing – Make it Count

It's not that difficult for some to come up with wonderful, innovative ideas—but getting those ideas to the point where they are patentable is an entirely different thing. Ideas themselves cannot be patented—you can have an idea, write all about it, claim it as your own, and have wonderful dreams of the money you'll make from it, but there is nothing to stop someone else from coming up with the same thing. If they are the first to file a patent application for this idea, it's theirs....

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Inventors: Avoid These Common Mistakes

Even though it can sometimes seem that the answer to everything is online—sometimes those answers are not correct. As any number of would-be inventors have found out, sometimes to their detriment. This doesn't mean that you can't, or shouldn't, seek out information wherever you can; just be sure to double check what you think you know against what a professional or lawyer actually does know. Here are a few of the main reasons new inventors sometimes run into trouble: 1. The Inventor Did Not Conduct a Professional Patent Search A good, thorough patent search is almost always the province of professionals. Motivated individuals...

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Friday Q & A : Answering Your Patent Search Questions

First thing's First Sometimes would-be inventors get lost, or discouraged, before they even apply for their patent. This is because they are unclear on some of the process that comes before the patent application, or, sometimes, before contact with a patent attorney. Here are a few answers to some of the more common questions about patents. Why A Patent Search? It doesn't matter if someone had your same idea before you did—but it does matter if they patented it first. You do a patent search before completing your patent application to ensure that yours is the first product or design to be patented....

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Apple Gives Us Yet Another Brilliant Patent

Apple Wants Power-Saving to be Just a Look Away Consumer expectation for electronic devices is that they will become ever more useful and multipurpose, allowing them to do more with less. Yet, in each of these devices the power source is both necessary and can sometimes take up too much room in the smaller handheld devices. For this, Apple thinks they have a solution, as outlined in U.S. Patent Application No. 20130135198: “A method for using a portable electronic device having an accelerometer and gaze detection circuitry, the method comprising: with the accelerometer, determining whether a measured acceleration level for the portable...

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Trade Theft

Obama Administration's 5-Step Strategy for Combating Trade Secret Theft

The timing of recent cyber attacks, and the suspicions of their Chinese origin, added yet more interest to the administrations recent announcement. The strategy presented by the Obama administration is designed to put an end to, or at least severely limit, the theft of US trade secrets. This strategy has five basic steps:

Stepping up diplomatic efforts

This step involves a few things. Building coalitions with countries that are facing their own cyber threats and threats of trade secrets. Increasing diplomatic efforts and conversation with countries who are most likely to be suspected in...

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Trademark

Trademarks — Different From Copyright and Patents

There is sometimes some confusion surrounding the various intellectual property law terms. People are generally familiar with the words, but are sometimes not too sure which one applies to what. Though there are depths to the laws surrounding these terms, it’s easy to get a general overview of what is covered under each law. This overview is for trademarks.

First, What a Trademark Is

Trademarks are basically a phrase, a word, a design or a symbol that identifies one company from another. Or one provider from another. These trademarked items (or ones that qualify for trademarking)...

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Patent Idea

No, You Can’t Patent An Idea, But…

You may have had the most brilliant thought or breakthrough but, no matter what hucksters try to tell you—you cannot patent that thought. What you can do, though, is recognize that that imaginative, unique idea is a good, solid step toward getting to something you can patent. So, don’t give up—the idea is the just the beginning, and then it’s time to move on to the next steps.

Nail Down the Details

A general idea cannot be patented, but detailed plans, drawings, are first steps to getting to where you can obtain a patent. Once you...

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