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Providing Knowledge and Insight Into the American Patent System

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This website comprises information pertaining to patent law in America. The content and material on this website may contain information that may be found on USPTO.gov and other informational publications.

Perhaps you are interested in the presently evolving American Patent System. New laws have recently passed that will forever change the manner in which patents are filed and obtained in the United States. You can click here for a synopsis of the changes as provided by CNNMoney in a September 9, 2011 publication on it's website. Most essentially, the USA is switching over from a "first to invent" to a "first to file" system in order to promote efficiency in the application process and within the court system, and to better comply with the majority of countries who also utilize a "first to file" system.

As noted by the USPTO, "issuing patents to the first person or company to file will help provide clarity in the patent-granting process. It will prevent inventors from coming out of the woodworks to challenge pending patents."

If you'd like some more information on the patent process, including a flowchart illustrating the various steps in the process, click here.


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Patents are difficult to obtain. Partially because of the back and forth process which occurs after an initial rejection. Just one of the several "cons" of obtaining patent protection. Click here to read some of the pros!

Protect your Idea or Invention for up to 20 years with a Patent

A U.S. patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor(s), issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling" the invention in the United States or "importing" the invention into the United States. To get a U.S. patent, an application must be filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

A patent provides an inventor with several powerful legal and equitable rights. Consequently, patents are difficult and expensive to achieve.

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