OT: Anyone have experience submitting for a patent

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[quote=jpinpb]
About the only thing I know is you have to get a patent attorney to research whether there’s a patent already existing on the idea for the product or something similar.[/quote]

You can do your own research at USPTO website or Google Patents page, but without an attorney you are more likely to misinterpret something. If you are dealing with business method patent an attorney will help a lot if you want to draft a defensible patent.

UCSD extension program has a few intellectual property related classes, including ‘patent drafting’, ‘patent searching’ and ‘principles of patents’.

[jpinpb]

Thanks, captcha. Good to know.

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[jpinpb]

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[UCGal]

You can save some money by hiring a patent agent vs a patent attorney to do the prior art research… The agent is certified by the patent board – but not an attorney. Basicially it’s someone with a math/science/engineering background who’s passed the patent bar, but not the law bar.

(I considered this as a career change at one point after dealing with IP/Patent attorneys in a work related arbitration.)

[UCGal]

You can save some money by hiring a patent agent vs a patent attorney to do the prior art research… The agent is certified by the patent board – but not an attorney. Basicially it’s someone with a math/science/engineering background who’s passed the patent bar, but not the law bar.

(I considered this as a career change at one point after dealing with IP/Patent attorneys in a work related arbitration.)

[UCGal]

You can save some money by hiring a patent agent vs a patent attorney to do the prior art research… The agent is certified by the patent board – but not an attorney. Basicially it’s someone with a math/science/engineering background who’s passed the patent bar, but not the law bar.

(I considered this as a career change at one point after dealing with IP/Patent attorneys in a work related arbitration.)

[UCGal]

You can save some money by hiring a patent agent vs a patent attorney to do the prior art research… The agent is certified by the patent board – but not an attorney. Basicially it’s someone with a math/science/engineering background who’s passed the patent bar, but not the law bar.

(I considered this as a career change at one point after dealing with IP/Patent attorneys in a work related arbitration.)

[UCGal]

You can save some money by hiring a patent agent vs a patent attorney to do the prior art research… The agent is certified by the patent board – but not an attorney. Basicially it’s someone with a math/science/engineering background who’s passed the patent bar, but not the law bar.

(I considered this as a career change at one point after dealing with IP/Patent attorneys in a work related arbitration.)

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb]
T4L – why manufacture overseas? Help this country out. Set up shop in Detroit or something. Surely by now you can get some cheap labor w/the way the U6 numbers are.[/quote]

Contract manufacturing versus having to do the manufacturing yourself+ liability/insurance/etc,etc,etc.

I wish our government would throw more money that it doesn’t have at companies that want to setup shop here. But, it spends money we don’t have on wars, bailing on underwater home owners, pensions, wall street firms/banks that made bad financial institutions,etc….

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb]
T4L – why manufacture overseas? Help this country out. Set up shop in Detroit or something. Surely by now you can get some cheap labor w/the way the U6 numbers are.[/quote]

Contract manufacturing versus having to do the manufacturing yourself+ liability/insurance/etc,etc,etc.

I wish our government would throw more money that it doesn’t have at companies that want to setup shop here. But, it spends money we don’t have on wars, bailing on underwater home owners, pensions, wall street firms/banks that made bad financial institutions,etc….

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb]
T4L – why manufacture overseas? Help this country out. Set up shop in Detroit or something. Surely by now you can get some cheap labor w/the way the U6 numbers are.[/quote]

Contract manufacturing versus having to do the manufacturing yourself+ liability/insurance/etc,etc,etc.

I wish our government would throw more money that it doesn’t have at companies that want to setup shop here. But, it spends money we don’t have on wars, bailing on underwater home owners, pensions, wall street firms/banks that made bad financial institutions,etc….

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb]
T4L – why manufacture overseas? Help this country out. Set up shop in Detroit or something. Surely by now you can get some cheap labor w/the way the U6 numbers are.[/quote]

Contract manufacturing versus having to do the manufacturing yourself+ liability/insurance/etc,etc,etc.

I wish our government would throw more money that it doesn’t have at companies that want to setup shop here. But, it spends money we don’t have on wars, bailing on underwater home owners, pensions, wall street firms/banks that made bad financial institutions,etc….

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