Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office - Softcover

Pressman, David; Blau, David E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413325394 ISBN 13: 9781413325393

Publisher: Nolo, 2018

Synopsis

Protect and profit from your invention

For over 30 years, Patent It Yourself has guided hundreds of thousands of inventors through the process of getting a patent, from start to finish. Patent attorneys David Pressman and David E. Blau provide the latest information, forms, and clear instructions to help you:

• conduct a patent search the right way
• evaluate your idea’s commercial potential
• file a provisional patent application to get “patent pending” status
• prepare a patent application
• focus on your patent application’s claims
• respond to patent examiners
• get your drawings done right
• protect your rights in foreign countries
• deal with infringers, and
• market and license your invention.
  

The 19th edition covers the latest implications of the first-to-file rules created by the America Invents Act.

About this title

Book Description

For over 30 years, this bestselling, all-on-one guide has been explaining how to evaluate hurdles to patentability, write a clear patent application, prepare patent drawings of your invention, conduct a patent search online, and complete all forms required by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The 19th edition includes the latest implications of recent patent law reforms.

About the Author

San Francisco Patent Attorney David Pressman is a graduate of Penn State University (BSEE) and George Washington University Law School (JD) where he was on the Law Review. He has over 40 years of experience in the patent profession -- as a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent Office, a patent attorney in corporate and private practice, a university instructor, a columnist, and as author of the Patent and Trademark entries to the World Book Encyclopedia. His books have charted the path for over 300,000 inventors. Dave is also co-author of How to Make Patent Drawings (with Jack Lo), Patent Pending In 24 Hours (with Rich Stim), and Patents For Beginners (with Rich Stim).

David E. Blau is a patent attorney at Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee in Canton, Massachusetts, and is a member of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Massachusetts bars. Dave received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology, with majors in both Mathematics and Engineering & Applied Science. Prior to law school, he worked for the government as a mathematician, for a number of private companies writing software to perform scalable content storage and distribution and back-office online commerce functions, and co-founded a web design business. He received his J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law with a certificate in Intellectual Property, and has practiced patent law in the Boston area ever since. Outside the practice of law, Dave is a scuba diver and a licensed private pilot who hopes to get his instrument rating someday.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nolo
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1413325394
• ISBN 13: 9781413325393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656