I am completely in the same boat. I believe I have the next multi-million dollar invention, just afraid of trusting somebody with taking my information and processing it. For this reason, I am continuing to search and find information as to who to go through and how in the heck I will pay for it. All is quite amazing coming from a 19 year old entrepreneur :. Quinn, We are a few friends from India who invented a kind of communication equipment, we made it out of scrap and it works.
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There are currently 18 Comments comments. Larry Kilham April 4, pm Good article Gene. If been looking for a summary like this for some time. Houvener April 5, am Yes, great article. Thanks for reading. Edgar April 29, pm Gene, thanks for the article. Dhananjoy Mishra April 29, pm Is it necessary to apply patent for each country? Gene Quinn April 30, am Dhananjoy- Patents are territorial.
Saint Cad May 27, pm How as Alice affected the cost of getting a software patent? Gene Quinn May 28, pm Saint- Alice has definitely made it more costly to prepare and file patent applications claiming software related inventions. Himself June 9, pm 1. Why is it so costly to get help with making your invention dream a reality? Koert June 18, pm I am completely in the same boat.
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If he had not billed enough for the month, he would call all the clients and chit chat with them. When I went out on my own, I began billing by the project. I felt that I could do a good job for my clients and not need to cut corners because I was charging a fair price. I tend to write very quickly and without a lot of errors, so I would consistently under-bill projects when I worked in a bill-by-the-hour law firm.
My personal preference is the fixed fee, both as a client and as a service provider. The bills are known and do not have surprises in them, and since I happen to be efficient, I can focus on quality without feeling like I am losing money on a project. Read more about Big Law and patents here. Many inventors and entrepreneurs like to tout their relationship with a Big Law Firm.
It is too bad they do not know how the sausage gets made. However, small firms are not without their problems, too. Big Law is all about churning work through the machine. In general, partners bring in the work, then feed it to the associates. The partner is the client-facing person and gets paid a percentage of the billings, but the real work is done in the windowless back room.
Big Law makes most of their money with Big Clients. The Big Clients often are smart enough to tell the partner that they want to vet every attorney who touches their work. When I did a lot of patent work for Microsoft, they wanted to run every attorney through a qualification process, and if they found out someone who was not qualified by them was working on their matters, the entire law firm was fired.
So, how does a first year associate get any work to do? I am being somewhat facetious here, but you get the point: it is a factory at Big Law and your work is probably not getting the love it deserves. What about small firms? Some are fantastic, where you talk to the actual person who is doing your work, and they are small, nimble, and have great customer service. In many cases, the attorneys have exceptional experience and can be a big value.
How to find a good attorney? The difference between a patent agent and a patent attorney is merely that the patent attorney went to law school.
Both the patent agent and the patent attorney have to have engineering or science degrees, and both have to pass the same Patent Bar Exam. I began as a patent agent, then went to law school and became a patent attorney. My joke was that I spent three years in law school and wound up doing the same work for the same clients for the same amount of money. Functionally, there is no difference although the patent attorney can get you out of your speeding ticket, too.
Patent agents can be every bit as good as patent attorneys — and every bit as bad sometimes. Practically, patent agents are treated as second class citizens, but mostly by the attorneys. The American Bar Association — who has a monopoly on how our legal system works — has put local laws in place that prohibit non-attorneys from being partners with attorneys.
This is purely an artificial constraint that forces people to go to law school accredited by the ABA then join the local bar and pay their dues to the ABA. The patent process involves two major phases. An average patent takes 4. Yes, some patents are allowed sooner, but many are allowed after office actions. A pre-appeal conference is often useful in moving cases towards allowance, and this is approximately the cost of an office action response. This occurs in about one out of every two cases, but sometimes two or more times per case.
My experience is that I use it almost one time per case on average. BlueIron is an alternative funding source for startup companies. What is the catch? We only invest when we believe the patents are going to be in that sliver of super-valuable patents. If you pass our due diligence, you know those patents are going to be very high value. Twitter Linkedin Skype Rss Email.
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