General Patent Information.

Patents are quite commonly granted in the US. Inventors can apply for patents in the US for new products and processes that they have invented as well as for discoveries. When a person gets a patent he/she gets the exclusive rights to the widget invented which would prevent anyone else from manufacturing and selling the…

Design and Business Method patents

Ideally, a patent application should be made before the invention is disclosed to the public. Once the invention is made public, you lose the opportunity to file for patent protection in most foreign countries. Ideas cannot be patented. However, you can file a Disclosure Document — a witnessed and notarized description and sketch of your…

General Patent Information

Patents are granted by the US government to inventors for new, non-obvious and useful inventions and discoveries, and similar standards of patentability are applied around the globe. A patent grants to its owner the right to exclude others from making, using or selling a patented machine or composition of matter, or using a patented method,…