Easy Patent Guide

What’s It All About? The field of patent law is wide open to Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, Computer Scientists, and many other science and technology professionals. And it’s true; individuals with the proper science or engineering degree need only pass the Patent Bar to become registered Patent Agents.

Upon becoming a Patent Agent, you may gain employment writing and prosecuting patent applications at law firms, technology transfer offices, biotech or engineering corporations, and government institutes.

This guide to filing a utility patent application for a non-provisional utility patent is presented in sequential order.

Nonprovisional Utility Patent Application Requirements

A nonprovisional utility patent application must include a specification, including a claim or claims; drawings, when necessary; an oath or declaration; and the prescribed filing fee.

Utility - Patent Application Transmittal Form And Appropriate Fee

United States Patent and Trademark Office issued patents to inventors in the United States. They can also entertain patent applications from other parts of the globe. United States Patent and Trademark Office allow bestow the right on inventors to exclude others from making, using, or selling their invention in the United States. In exchange for this grant, the inventors must disclose their invention to the public in the form of a patent application.

The examination process by United States Patent Office after the patent application has been filed usually takes 12 to 18 months. This is so because it will depend on the workload and staffing of the United States Patent Office. The United States Patent Office examiners only verify that the description and claims per description by their inventors are new, unique, and not obvious to the United States Patent Office. The United States Patent Office examiners do not verify that an invention works or that it can ever be, or never has been, built. They try only to correctly verify that the invention is patentable and has not been patented in the U.S. before and their results have been overturned on more than one occasion. The United States Patent Office will not tell you if your invention has already been invented by someone else unless you apply for a patent.

USA Patent Office is tasked with issuing patents to inventors. Patents give them the right to exclude others from making, using, selling or offering for sale the patented invention in the United States. In exchange for this grant, the inventors must disclose their invention to the public in the form of a patent application.

Acquiring US patents give an inventor exclusive rights on the invention. Others could not make, use, import, sell or offer to sell the invention without the inventor’s permission. US patents can be obtained on “inventions”. Inventions include any new and useful machine, process, article of manufacture, composition of matter (such as a new chemical composition), and improvements on any of these things. Virtually anything that is new and made by man is subject matter eligible for patent protection.

A US patent gives an inventor the right to exclude all others from making, using, importing, selling or offering to sell the invention for up to 20 years without the inventor’s permission. This gives the inventor the opportunity to produce and market the invention himself, or license others to do so, and to make a profit.