Patent Attorney and Founder
Hi I’m JD Houvener your host of the bold today’s show were you the inventor entrepreneur business owner get your daily dose of inspiration so you can make the world a better place we’re in a 10 part series talking about what are all of your options when it comes down to filing a patent application and this is option number two right as opposed to not filing a patent at all this is filing a patent application on your own by yourself you know as we’re gonna find out that is fraught with error right fraught with you know issues that are gonna hold you back and so I’m gonna go through each of these in turn to kind of go through help you think through what it would mean and what kind of issues would with this cause if you go to file your own application so looking first off at the actual written description the specification of an application when you go about describing your invention as an inventor you’re going to be thinking about what it is you’ve created or you’ve probably come up with some prototype or software app some creations some embodiment version of your invention that you like and you think is ready for the market that’s probably what you’re going to talk about and then maybe all you talk about and that’s a problem when it comes to writing a patent you’ve really got to explore alternative embodiments and think much much broader about how your invention may have different applications so your your invention for you know a new tire sure may be great application for a sports tire because the way the slick is and the way the rubber hits the pavement or the way the the different way that it’s shaped but that could certainly also have applications in industrial setting on say a conveyor belt you might not have thought about so having that that thought of being able to expand your invention into other applications writing a full specification covering all those different versions that’s the power of working with professional so by following it on your own you’re really limiting the scope of what your invention is going to have rights on and therefore limiting the value let’s talk it also about your time you will talk about this yesterday but as an inventor as a business owner perhaps your time is money and so when you spend time writing an application you know even if you’ve done your diligence you know you’ve bought the you know the patent it yourself for dummies book and you’re following it along you know spending 10 20 30 40 hours writing an application doing something that you’re unfamiliar with is likely going to cause a huge hole huge you know debt in terms of how your business is moving forward if you have employees if you’re trying to run a business and grow a supply chain all of that is put on pause while you write this application it’s like filing your own taxes in a way I’m sure you can do it but is it the right thing for you and are you gonna get the best benefit out of it so I don’t believe I’m a strong advocate than inventors really are not the best to be able to write their own applications you’re not going to get the most value from the application once it gets granted as a patent these are just a few reasons why I don’t think filing your own a patent application is the right way to go you should likely seek help from a patent professional bold patents is dedicated to helping inventors with moving their patents forward that is all we do it’s our name as we believe in we want to uplift inventors empower them to move their products into the marketplace and so we write patents on purpose we’re business minded with the goal in mind to help you with your product give us a call at
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