My inventions
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From: Oregon
Seems like the patent attorney fee has been stuck at $10K for years. If you shoot off an email and ask, the PO will send you a packet full of info with the steps needed and things like places where to perform searches. The more you know of the process, the more bargaining power you will have with an attorney. To me, when the PO says a patent attorney is strongly suggested, it means I could DIY the thing, or at least have an attorney play a $mall role. ( I wonder what percentage of Wash. DC is made up of lawyers?)
I've worked at places with all the invention/non-compete and proprietary knowledge clauses. It's funny, but they've usually sucked the creativity out of me so bad, I felt like a Dilbert character and any extra "thinking" didn't cross my mind...
I've worked at places with all the invention/non-compete and proprietary knowledge clauses. It's funny, but they've usually sucked the creativity out of me so bad, I felt like a Dilbert character and any extra "thinking" didn't cross my mind...
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If I give you some advice will you promise not to get mad? Discouraged perhaps, but I'm only going to tell you the way that it is.
Great ideas are a dime a dozen. Getting a party to manufacture, market, and sell the product while retaining a small fraction of the proceeds for yourself are the key. Take it from one who knows: use this approach and your inventiveness may actually pay off for you, instead of getting you nothing.
Great ideas are a dime a dozen. Getting a party to manufacture, market, and sell the product while retaining a small fraction of the proceeds for yourself are the key. Take it from one who knows: use this approach and your inventiveness may actually pay off for you, instead of getting you nothing.
"Mifflin Clay"
Joined: Jul 2005
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From: Mifflin, PA
All these ideas about notarizing and mailing to yourself, witnesses, are great for proving when YOU came up with the idea, but I THINK that if someone else independantly comes up with the same idea AND PATENTS it, it's his, because you didn't patent it. JMHO! 
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