How To Get A Patent: The Ultimate Guide To Being Awarded And Maintaining A Patent Plr Ebook

Table of Contents

So What is a Patent? 3
A Brief History of the Patent 6
Patents in the U.S. 6
Enforcement
Ownership
Patent Laws and Treaties 12
The Patent Application 14
National, Regional and International 14
National applications 14
Regional applications 15
International Applications 15
Types of Applications 16
Standard application 16
Provisional applications 16
Continuation applications 16
Divisional applications 17
The Application Process 18
Step 1: The Patent Specification 18
Patent in a Timely Manner 18
Specification Claims 19
Very Important: Your Filing Date 19
Step 2: Patent Prosecution 20
Application Preparation 20
Filing an application 21
Search and examination 22
Invention registration 24
Optional: Reissuance & Reexamination 24
Appeals and Abandonment 25
Abandonment 26
Maintain Your Patent 27
Consider a Patent Attorney 28
Think Before You Patent 32
Consider the Costs 34

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So What is a Patent?

People have been inventing things for thousands of years. Invention and creation are the reasons we’re able to sustain ourselves in the world today. Believe it or not, the power of invention and utilitarian object use actually transcends humans and can be found in a variety of other species such as chimps who use crudely made wooden tools to hunt for insects and other animals or a rare species of tropical ants that farm fungus from a particular tree in order to feed the colony. For us humans, however, invention is a way of improving everyday life, carving out history with monumental adaptations and often times it’s a source of wealth and popularity.

That’s every inventor’s dream isn’t it? We all either want to become wealthy or at least well known for our positive contributions to society. But what’s to stop somebody who has seen your invention from making their own and dipping into the profits without considering you? That very scenario is why we have patent laws in the U.S. and all over the world. When you invent a marvelous new contraption that makes life easier or changes the world, you can patent it and no one else can steal your idea and profit without your permission.

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention. You may have heard of copyrights for works of art. Copyrights protect artistic work from being copied without the creator’s permission. Patents are very much like copyright laws except copyright laws are exclusive to works of art whereas patents are exclusive to utilitarian things (and patents include a variety of things from everyday objects to sets of specific standards and procedures which aren’t tangible but can still be protected).