The world's bestselling patent book! Patent It Yourself is the world's bestselling patent book, recommended by patent attorneys, inventors, librarians and journalists. Patent attorney and former patent examiner David Pressman takes you -- step-by-step and in plain English -- through the entire patent process, from conducting a patent search to filing a successful application. Patent It Yourself also covers: documenting the invention process successful marketing strategies foreign patent rights assigning and licensing your invention to others infringement and much more Thoroughly updated, the 11th edition of Patent It Yourself provides the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules and forms. Whether you're new at the inventing game or a grizzled veteran, Patent It Yourself will save you grief, time, and most importantly, money.

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Inventor's Commandment #2 To invent successfully, be aware of problems you encounter and seek solutions. Also, take the time to study and investigate the practicality of new phenomena that occur by accident or flash of insight. Persevere with any development you believe has commercial potential. Before we get to patents, the primary subject of this book, I provide this chapter to discuss inventions and inventing. Why do this? To begin, you may be a first-time inventor and thus have no experience in the real world of protecting and patenting inventions. I believe that you'll be a better inventor if you understand and become familiar with some successful inventors. Also, I believe that too many first-timers get discouraged without trying hard enough. To inspire you to hang in there, I include here some past success stories. Hopefully, when you see that many other small, independent inventors have found their pot of gold, you'll be stimulated to press on. Inventing provides things that enhance our lives, making them more interesting, pleasurable, exciting, rewarding, and educational. As the noted Swiss psychologist, Piaget, once said, "We learn most when we have to invent." Remember that everything of significance, even the chair you're probably seated in now, started with an idea in someone's brain. If you come up with something, don't dismiss it; it could turn out to be something great! Common Misconception: The day of the small inventor is over; an independent inventor no longer has any chance to make a killing with his or her invention. Fact: As you'll see by the examples given later in this chapter, many small, independent inventors have done extremely well with their inventions. Billions of dollars in royalties and other compensation are paid each year to independent inventors for their creations. In fact 73% of all inventions that have started new industries have come from individual inventors. So, don't be a victim of the "no-use-going-on-with-it-because-surely-someone-has-invented-it-already" syndrome. While I recommend that you don't rush blindly ahead to patent your work without making a sensible investigation of prior inventions and your creation's commercial potential (in the ways I discuss later), I urge you not to quit without giving your invention a fair chance. Another reason for this chapter is that many inventors come up with valuable inventions, but they haven't developed them sufficiently so that they can be readily sold. If their creations could be improved with further work, they'd have a far greater chance of success. So here I'll also give some hints about such things as improving your inventions, solving problems about workability, and drawbacks. If you've already made an invention, or are even in the business of inventing, I believe the techniques in this chapter that increase your creativity and provide additional stimulation will help you to make more and better inventions. On the other hand, I also recognize that the information in this chapter may not be particularly helpful to the experienced inventor or the corporate inventor -- after all, you're already firmly in the inventing business. If you would rather skip this information for now, go to Chapter 3, where my discussion of record keeping should prove of value to even the most seasoned of inventors. A. What I Mean by "Invention" For the purpose of this book, an invention is any thing, process, or idea that isn't generally and currently known; which, without too much skill or ingenuity, can exist in or be reduced to tangible form or used in a tangible thing; which has some use or value to society; and which you or someone else has thought up or discovered.

 

Introduction 1. Introduction to Patents and Other Intellectual Property 2. The Science and Magic of Inventing 3. Documentation, the DDP, and the PPA 4. Will Your Invention Sell? 5. Is It Patentable? 6. Search and You May Find 7. What Should You Do Next? 8. How to Draft the Specification and Initial Drawings 9. Now for the Legalese-The Claims 10. Finaling and Mailing Your Application 11. How to Market Your Invention 12. Going Abroad 13. Getting the PTO to Deliver 14. Your Application Can Have Children 15. After Your Patent Issues: Use, Maintenance, and Infringement 16. Ownership, Assignment, and Licensing of Inventions Appendixes 1. Abbreviations Used in Patent It Yourself 2. Resources: Government Publications, Patent Websites, and Books of Use and Interest 3. Glossaries 4. Fee Schedule 5. Mail, Telephone, Fax, and Email Communications With the PTO 6. Quick-Reference Timing Chart 7. Tear-Out Forms 8. Forms Available at the PTO Website Index

It is the most definitive, complete and current do-it-yourself patent book ever written and it is written in easy-to-understand laymen's terms.

 

Every step of the patent process is presented in order in this gem of a book, complete with official forms....

 

Easy to understand and can save thousands of dollars by writing your own patent application, or by writing much of it...

 

Attorney David Pressman has over 30 years of experience in the patent profession -- as a patent attorney, a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent Office and a university instructor. He is the foremost expert on the patent-filing process and has charted the path for over 100,000 inventors. His book, Patent It Yourself, is the most highly recommended guide to patenting an invention. David is co-author, with Fred Grissom, of The Inventor’s Notebook and, with Patent Agent Jack Lo, of How to Make Patent Drawings Yourself.

 

Patent It Yourself by David Pressman
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