Patent Law Philosophy

Operating a believe tank is a particularly interesting profession and it's something I do in my retirement. One factor I have noticed about entrepreneurs with inventions, innovations, suggestions, and new concepts is they commonly don't want to speak about them, as they are afraid an individual else could steal their concept. I guess I can comprehend that, as I have a ton of new concepts, and original thoughts each month. Still, it need to be recognized that just mainly because you have an concept doesn't mean somebody else hasn't already had that similar notion, and that a person else doesn't already have a patent on it.

Let's talk a little bit about patent philosophy, and where I'm coming from on my comments here you see, frequently an inventor will ask me to sign a non-compete or nondisclosure agreement on their thought, on the other hand more than the years I've stopped undertaking this for a couple of factors. Generally, I sign their nondisclosure agreement, only to come across out their concept is something I've already had, or considered decades ago, and have most likely even written an write-up on it, or their thought and innovation has already been patented, generally by significantly more than 1 group, company, or individual inventor.

In other words, they had me sign a nondisclosure agreement prior to they even did a patent search, or even pulled up Google Patents web based search function to see if their idea had already been taken. The other day an inventor came to me and said they had this great idea, and he told me it was terrific, and all that jazz, and it would revolutionize five various industries. So finally I gave in and I agreed to a nondisclosure agreement in an e-mail. Then when they told me of their idea, I just shook my head for them wasting my time.

You see, I went to Google Patent search, and I pulled up 15 patents which had been quite comparable to their idea, and then e-mailed them all the links. And then they told me "oh effectively, I should've recognized far better," and I'd say to that, yes they should really have, or they should've looked very first, before wasting anyone else's time. 1 factor I uncover is that we have a difficulty with communication when everybody is running about attempting to preserve a secret, primarily when - it's not even a secret at all. Further, most of these inventors are in no way going to do anything with their thought anyway, and even if they had been, they don't even know how to get started.

Lastly, a decent number of these inventors and innovators are entirely broke, they sit about thinking all day, and they've by no means completed anything or collected adequate income to make excellent on any of their concepts or concepts. It's hard to say who is to blame. Is it the patent workplace for making factors too difficult, even though with Google patent search, that appears to be an old predicament which is honestly no longer relevant. Perhaps the issue is that too lots of patents are being awarded for suggestions, rather than prototypes.

Indeed, I ask that you please take into consideration all this and feel on it, and recognize this is just patent law philosophy 101. Yes, you will need to quite possibly have an inventor's book, and write in it appropriately with dates, and no spaces among the pages. And if you acquire you have a awesome invention which no one has ever believed of before, you must possibly file for a patent, and get the ball rolling, and have folks sign nondisclosure agreements. But do your homework, don't waste other people's time, or anticipate them to do your homework for you. And if you are definitely serious, get in touch with a decent patent lawyer and do it perfect. I hope you will please look into all this.