Protecting Your New Invention

Have an Idea for a New Invention? Don't get your idea stolen. Tips to keeping your new ideas safe from information theft for those who want to protect their invention.

Intellectual Property – Patent Dispute – Revocation

In the case of Merz Pharma GmbH and Co KGaA v Allergan Inc [2006], a dispute arose as to the validity of a patent for the use of Botulinium toxins in a type of medical treatment.

Soon China Will Demand Patent Protect and the Tables Will Turn

Patent Piracy is a huge problem for United States Businesses. Much of this International Crime is being committed by Chinese Business Entrepreneurs and the problem is so bad that it is running ramped. How bad is it?

Free Patent Searches

One of the primary things to do when a commercially viable idea hits the brain is to search for a patent for the concept. A patent allows for the conversion of the concept into a business and prohibits others from infringing on the idea. Commonly, patent searches through patent search offices entail some footwork as well as money.

The Patent Office's Proposed Rules For Disclosing Prior Art Increase Patent Applicant's Burden

The proposed new rules require patent applicants to make a selection of documents to be disclosed; the rules ask the applicants to provide explanation on pertinent documents. To insure that the strenght or validity of the patent is not jeopardized, extreme caution is required when deadling with the Patent Office.

Shouldn't Great Inventions Deserve Iron-clad Patents?

Chemical or pharmaceutical industries obtain patents to protect their inventions. However, many of the patents do not hold up to intense scrutiny by lawyers and courts. This article provides practical tips for obtaining strong patent protection on inventions so that these industries can resist competition successfully.

Patent Technology Indicators

Patent are the most valuable form of information available for competivie analysis. Different indicator are being used to predict the value of a patent or any company's strength. Tech-Line uses three standard patent indicators and six advanced citation indicators invented by CHI to analyze corporate technological strength.

Patent Writing India - The Patent Amendment Act, 2002

The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002 was passed by Parliament in May, 2002 and notified in June, 2003. The Act has been made effective from May, 2003 and has brought about lot of changes...

Patent - Marketing Strategy

An article about marketing strategy and avoiding starting the one year clock ticking on patents.

Patent - Business Method Patents - Part II

Second in a series of articles on business method patents.

Patent - How To Get One

An article on how to get a patent.

Royalties on Patents and Audit Rights

Many inventors come up with a great idea and wish to sell this idea to another company in trade for royalties for use of their patent. This makes sense because the inventor

Using Someone Else's Patent to Bring A Product to Market

Often inventors and innovators will come up with a way to make a better mousetrap. Often they will find others hold patents to a critical component to make this better mousetrap innovation or invention.

Short Guide to Patent Protection and Patentability

What can be protected? Determining what qualifies as a patentable invention is a highly difficult and complicated task. Patent laws state that “Anything under the sun that was invented by man qualifies as patentable”. Simple enough, but if you notice, there are hundreds of pages full of exceptions and details on the idea of patentability following this phrase. Scores of appeals and patent court cases have arisen due to questions regarding patentability because it still hasn’t, and probably never will be entirely pinned down.

The Beginnings of a Quality Patent Search

Hopefully you realize that before you do much of anything, you need to look at the marketability of your invention. Remember, you don’t want to do anything until you have a good feel for whether or not you can actually make some money from your invention. Of course, you can’t ever determine with 100% accuracy if you will make money or how much, but you can gain an idea by looking at other products available in the marketplace.