Inventing: First
Steps Book Offer
Learn About Invention Protection
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Protecting Your Invention - Invention City Article - Summary information on basic issues and methods for protecting an invention.
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Confidentiality Agreement Review - Invention City Article. Learn about the most basic tool of invention protection. Examples provided.
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The Disclosure Dilemma - Invention City Article. You need to talk about the invention to move it forward. How do you do that without giving away the store?
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Inventing: First Steps - Invention City President Mike Marks tells you how to protect, evaluate and prototype your invention on a tight budget - (book offer).
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Overview of Patent Law - Brief 1-page summary of patent law from Cornell Law School.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office - The USPTO web site is a must visit for every inventor.
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Patent It Yourself
- David Pressman's classic belongs on every inventor's bookshelf. It provides an in-depth understanding of the patent process and will help you make intelligent decisions regardless of whether or not you actually do it yourself. The cost is $39.96. The value is easily twice that much.
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Handbook for Inventors - Basic information provided free by MIT
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Legal Evaluation - The law offices of Brown, Pinnisi & Michaels, PC offer a series of questions that you should consider, prior to attempting to patent your invention. Read Invention City's answers to the 4 questions posed by Brown & Michaels.
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So, you have an idea? The Franklin Pierce Law Center provides a fabulous discussion of how to protect your idea before you begin to discuss it with potential buyers.
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BountyQuest - To learn the true meaning and importance of the term "prior art" spend some time at BountyQuest.com. BountyQuest is where a corporation might go first if it wanted to invalidate an issued patent. Scary, isn't it. Actually it's pretty cool. BountyQuest saves hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation costs. Start on the patent information page by clicking on the link above.
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Did Edison Knock Off the Light Bulb? Electrically charged article from Einsteinsfrig.com
Patent Attorney and Agent Listings
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Feebid.com - Obtain quotes from attorneys for intellectual property legal services - patent filings, litigation etc.
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Martindale-Hubbell provides comprehensive listings of more than 900,000 attorneys in all fields of law.
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My Rights Central offers a free Legal Resource Center or a membership providing unlimited legal advice and other services.
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Contingent Fee Patent Litigation is a service offered by Patent Attorney Dale Quisenberry.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office - Currently you can search through full text patents issued since 1976. Full page images may be viewed going back to 1790
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IP Tool Bar - One stop resource for all forms of intellectual property research: patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names... US and worldwide. Nicely done.
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PatentHunter - Software program that downloads and manages United States patent images. Free Trial Version available.
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Delphion - Slick tool for searching patents by key word and phrase back to 1971. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view images of patent front pages.
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LawCrawler - Contains an index of legal subjects, cases and codes, and various legal associations, in addition to basic searching.
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The European Patent Office - Provides the ability to search through its patents. Beware that patent law differs amongst countries.
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VersusLaw - Provides full-text opinions from Federal and State Appellate Courts, dating back to 1950.
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Software Patent Institute - Database includes computer manuals, old textbooks and journal articles, conference proceedings, computer science theses, and other materials dating back to 1955.
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Ag Biotechnology Patents and New Technologies - Database of the USDA Biotechnology Information Center, which provides full-text listings of agricultural biotechnology patents dating back to 1994.
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Chemical Patents Plus! - Database is provided by Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS).
Engineering Drawing
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Dakatec Patent Drafting Services specializes in patent and trademark drawings. R&J Patent Drafting is a single patent drawing resource for U.S. & foreign utility and design patents.
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Patent Drafting Company offers high quality low cost patent illustration services for independent inventors.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office - Once again, the USPTO is a great resource.
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My Rights Central offers a free Legal Resource Center or a membership providing unlimited legal advice and other services.
