Brian R. Rayve - InventionPatenting.com
www.InventionPatenting.com was founded by Brian R. Rayve to educate and assist independent inventors and small businesses in protecting and marketing their inventions.
Legal publications are written by Brian R. Rayve, Esq... of the Law Office of Brian R. Rayve, who has over 27 years of combined experience in the product design, development, and the legal field.
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What is a patent?
In return for completely disclosing the invention including how to practice the invention, a legal monopoly on the invention is granted to the inventor(s) for a specific period of time, that legal monopoly being the right for the inventor(s) to
exclude others from: 1) making; 2) using; 3) offering for sale or selling; or 4) importing the invention in the particular country.
Once a patent application is prepared and filed and prior to issuance of a patent, the invention can be marked "patent pending", which while having no legal significance and grants the inventor(s) no legal rights tends to discourage others from copying the invention since a patent might issue on the invention granting the legal monopoly to the inventor(s).
There are two types of patents, design patents and utility patents. A design patent protects the "aesthetics" or the "appearance" the invention and is a much more limited legal monopoly than utility patents which protect the "function" of the invention. Therefore, utility patents are desirable over design patents where possible, though an invention can be protected by both design and utility patents.
The period of time for which the legal monopoly is granted for a utility patent is 20 years from the filing date of a utility patent application, however, the legal rights do not begin until the patent issues.
The period of time for a design patent is 14 years from the issue date. Additionally, utility patents require the payment of maintenance fees 3.5, 7.5, and 11.5 years following issuance to maintain the patent in force whereas design patents require none.
The inventor(s) should be careful to maintain their invention secret until the advice of a competent licensed patent attorney or patent agent is sought. This is because many foreign countries in which the inventor(s) might decide to seek patent protection there is an "absolute novelty" requirement.
This means that if the invention is "publicly disclosed" (i.e. disclosed to a sufficient number of people in a non-confidential manner) prior to the "effective filing date" in that country, then the validity of any patent which would potentially issue on the invention in that country.
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