I am looking for a reliable company to patent and market an invention of mine. Do you of such a company?
2006-11-13 04:12:26 · 6 answers · asked by bryan b 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
I wouldn't use any of those companies. I also wouldn't advise trying to write a patent application yourself. A patent that isn't written well isn't going to be worth anything. The specification and claims in the non-provisional application are critical. A badly written patent may not cover any products, may be too easy to design around, or may be too easy to invalidate.
The best thing you can do is get the advice of a qualified patent professional. He or she will help you learn whether your idea or invention is novel (new), whether it will be worthwhile to patent, and about how much it will cost to draft, file, and prosecute (expect to pay at least $5,000-$10,000 in United States to obtain a patent that will have any value).
If you can't afford to hire a patent attorney or agent, then for only $100 you can file a complete description of the invention as a provisional application for patent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Your description must explain exactly and completely how to make, perform, enable, and practice your invention. Then you will have a year before you have to file a nonprovisional patent (which should be prepared only by a patent professional). In the meantime you can call your invention "patent pending" and you can show your idea to companies who might want to buy it. See the link below to obtain the forms and complete instructions for filing a provisional patent application.
If you do find a major company who wants to buy your invention, then aside from paying you for it they will probably be happy to prepare, file, and prosecute the nonprovisional patent application (which saves you the cost of doing it) in return for your assigning the patent rights to them.
And if it turns out that you are unable to interest anyone in buying your invention, and you don't want to try to make and market it yourself, then you will be out only $100 instead of having paid several thousand dollars to obtain a patent that you can't market.
2006-11-13 11:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by gradivus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a patent is between you, attorney and the government. a company doesn't issue this.
after that is done, you will have to send the idea to each company you want to market it too.
coming up with a new invention or idea is a long, hard road and normally takes at least 3 yrs to complete working full time at it. also costs thousands and thousands of dollars. this is why you don't see inventors on every street corner nor is it a career persay.
2006-11-13 12:14:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah...send me your idea and I'll tell you where to go.
heh heh heh
but then again it isn't advisable to patent your idea. Just sell your idea to a company that can use it. They will pay you dividends.
If you patent it you have to pay for the patent..and then some other company will come along... change your idea 10% and cut you out all together.
2006-11-13 12:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you find 1, please let me know. However, I will advise you very strongly not to use a company called "Davison's. There is at least 12 blogs on them on the internet where people are suing them, etc. Because of one of the suits, they had to send me a ltr showing that they rate of getting patents was less than .001%
2006-11-13 12:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by bettyswestbrook 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go through a patent attorney, yellow pages.
2006-11-13 12:30:37 · answer #5 · answered by niddlie diddle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
got $150?? go visit uspto.gov, download forms and try to patent it yourself if you can. don't get screwed by those companies.
2006-11-13 16:40:42 · answer #6 · answered by N 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋