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Category Archives: Invention

Do I need a Patent Attorney to file my Patent?

By Audrey | Published: March 9, 2010
One of the biggest questions facing the inventor is whether to hire a Patent Attorney to prepare and file for patent protection for their invention.  To start with, we must first be clear on the rule of law which contain absolutely no requirement that one must have a patent attorney to; file a patent application, [...]
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“Patentability Searches” Defined

By Audrey | Published: December 10, 2009
A Patentability Search is the first task on the road to obtaining protection for your invention. Where to go and how to start is the oft asked question.  While all Patentability Searches have the general goal of identifying inventions with the same characteristics as the topic of the search (Prior Art), there are certain [...]
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Protect your Invention

By Audrey | Published: November 21, 2009
So, you have this great idea that you have been tinkering with, but you  haven’t quite ironed out all the wrinkles to where you are ready to file your patent application.  How can you protect against someone else stealing your idea and beating you to the patenting “punch”?  Well, there is one very important [...]
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What is NOT Patentable?

By Audrey | Published: September 17, 2009
As discussed in the previous post, an invention is only patentable if it is Novel, Useful and Not Obvious. Additionally, it must be adequately described or otherwise enabled in a patent application, and claimed by the inventor in a patent application in clear and definite terms.  The Supreme Court has stated that anything under the [...]
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The Magic of Innovation – part 2

By Audrey | Published: September 5, 2009
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize 1937   Welcome back to our series on the Magic of Innovation.  In this installment, we will be discussing growing and developing an idea or invention.  If you missed out on part one where we talked about what actually [...]
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