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Are you an inventor?
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In this section, I am going to tell you what is inventorship. Inventorship is an objective test. If someone materially contributes at least one concept of a patent application claim, then they should be and they must be listed as inven...
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How do you describe your drawing?
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In this section, we are going to identify one sentence that identifies your whole drawing. We are also going to identify everything that you have shown as to what you are showing and what it does. You want to indicate one sentence for ...
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How do you write an abstract for a patent?
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In this section, we are going to talk about the abstract and write your abstract. The abstract makes the cover page of an issued patent or a published application. It is often the first thing that people read. However, technically, it...
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How to write a patent
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In the starting step, you are going to be doing two things. You are going to be selecting the patent field and you are going to be naming your file. Selecting the patent field means that you are going to be indicating what subject are...
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How to write a Summary for your utilty patent application?
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In this section we are going to talk about the summary and write the summary of your invention. The summary of the invention should mirror your independent claim. The independent claim that you just wrote that took your primary elemen...
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How to write claims?
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In this section, we are going to be writing claims. Claims are the legal aspects of this whole exercise and that is to define what your monopoly right is. Claims are limitations. The best claims are no words at all. We cannot use cla...
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What are the two types of Claims?
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In this section I am going to talk about what are the elements of a claim. A claim is a single sentence. There are two kinds of claims: independent claims and dependent claims. Dependent claims take everything from the independent cla...
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What do write a Background section of a patent application?
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In this section we are going to write the background of your invention. The background of your invention needs to be done very carefully. Backgrounds can be treated as admissions often when patents become valuable. So you want to make...
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What documents are needed to apply for a patent?
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Here, I am going to talk about which documents that you should submit with the patent application. You should always submit an IDS which is an invention Disclosure Statement to the Patent Office which shows what are the known prior art ...
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What does detailed description mean?
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We have made it to the detailed description section. The detailed description section is basically a write up that supports your claims. Everything that you said in your claims should be in the detailed description and should be explai...
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What is Notice of Allowance?
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In this section I am going to talk to you about what is a Notice of Allowance. A Notice of Allowance is when the Patent Office has agreed to grant you a patent. If the amendments are sufficient, the Patent Office is convinced and now t...
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What is Provisional Patent?
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So what is a provisional patent? In summary, it is nothing. Provisional patents do not exist in the world. There are provisional patent applications, but you can never get a provisional patent. There are only full utility patents tha...
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When your invention is a new combination
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So I am going to talk about what are some secondary factors that you might be able to use to overcome an obviousness rejection when your invention is really a combination of things that previously existed. The basic thing and one of the...
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