Patent Attorney and Founder
When I’m JD Houvener host of the bowl today’s show for you the inventor entrepreneur or business owner get your daily dose of inspiration to make the world a better place hey we’re in part three talking about intellectual property and celebrating the fifo world right now and this is our second week of that it’s exciting time check it out if you haven’t already cheer on your favorite team and see how things are going in the tournament today we’re talking about patent law on Monday we talked about trademarks yesterday it was copyrights today its patent law well we talk about patents all day long every day we come with really goofy examples I mean flying animals to fireworks and all kinds of different things right this is the time that I want to take with you to make sure we understand the basics of patent law and so Anna a law patent law comes down to an inventor government right the United States Patent and Trademark Office which is a extension of the of the delegation of Congress right they’ve given the administration the of the USPTO the power to give exclusive rights meaning the inventor is the only one in the entire country that’s able to make booze well import the invent the US now you get that well the inventor has got to go to proof of these it’s fine a novel truly novel invention that’s not obvious based on other items and references that are in the prior art and it has the utility some now the button beyond that’s Opel entertaining provide some value to the public one thing that has done that and convinced the Patent Office and the examiner particularly that they’re worthy of it the patent is granted it’s not granted for us right there’s this exclusivity is limited to twenty years twenty years from the date of filing that patent application there is only gonna be able to do this one forever after a 20-year mark it’s now open to the public anyone in the public can use make sell or import that product the whole idea is so that we all slowly become smarter and by virtue of the inventor telling the world what they’ve created the government says thank you very much we’re willing to actually give you this granted patent and on top of that providing mechanism for you to go sue anyone in federal court that may be infringing your patent rights that’s patent law in a nutshell and hope this is anything for you with the patents you know that’s week and this week and we’ll talk a little bit about you know tales of these later on this week to about examples of patents and so for soccer there are plenty of patents out there including of course the ball itself but don’t forget there’s patents on methods and processes which include play and ways that soccer and sports and training for soccer can occur so methods of training is a unique way to think about protecting in the in of soccer so patents are all around you if you think about it in terms of the methods and processes the apparatuses that are used to train the equipment the medical training all the devices pharmaceuticals it’s interesting well I’m JD Houvener of the bold today’s show I hope y’all had a wonderful day and thanks for tuning in go big go bowl
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