Ten months into the Obama Administration, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) is making some significant changes. We tend to like them, because they’re good for inventors. Among those changes, USPTO has:
- Launched a new USPTO website (still located at www.uspto.gov). This reinvented site is much easier to navigate than the old one, so you’ll definitely want to check it out for rules, requirements and helpful tips from Uncle Sam’s patent people.
- Expanded a pilot program for patent applicants and examiners to discuss an application before the examiner passes judgment. Said the head of Patent Office about this move, “When people talk to one another and listen to one another they can quickly understand points of agreement as well as differences, and resolve those differences in real-time.”
- • Rescinded an unpopular 2007 rule that had limited patent applicants to a certain number of utility claims and continuations. The original aim was commendable—to increase process efficiency so patents could be granted faster; however, the rule as published in 2007 earned harsh criticism from the start, because it significantly constrained applications.
Having brain damage prior to my 20th b-day
is no picnic: similarly, being a creative geious
has it's drawbacks as well
the more fuel I delicately place in the furnace of new product ideas that I dream into reality the more hurtles appear along the path
No such inventor support group exist's
I do my own patent research at the central Library here on LA, CA so far I've seen green lights along each route to marketplace except myown
My intention is to liscense the manufacturing to business' who need new idea's
how can I do this when the provisional patent expires in only a year?
Posted by: Mr Dylan Thomas Rigsby | 11/04/2009 at 03:14 PM