Patent Attorney and Founder
Hi everybody I’m JD Houvener your host of the bold Today Show are you the inventor entrepreneur business owner get your daily dose of inspiration to make the world a better place all right we’re in part of three this week talking about patent applications and your different options you’ve got as inventor as a business owner some Monday we’re talking about the option of doing nothing you know not filing a patent you know you know leaving yourself really open for people coming in and taking the market share right out of your feet a little bit better than doing nothing is doing it on your own but yes fraught with errors well I mean really out of your comfort zone and likely gonna cause more harm than good today we’re talking about it another just a very incremental better step isn’t this to use a company like a cheap company online like a Legal Zoom so let’s dig into that little bit you know who are LegalZoom what are their you know rocket lawyers some of these other cheap in a you know inexpensive ways to get your application filed and it is it’s just taking shortcuts it’s the only way they’re able to deliver it for the price they do is because they don’t use attorneys you know they use ghost writers or copy editors and the only time that professional a patent agent actually is the one that sends it in and actually files the paperwork but it’s a lot of it is done by who knows who in drafting the specification the drawings and the claims which is such an art so I hate to hear when clients have had a experience using an inexpensive or cheap online resource to do that the level of effort is just not there and it is it’s clear when you look at the written description it only only covers usually one version of the invention it doesn’t go into much detail covering different alternative embodiments the claims are very specific they’re really made to just get around middle one examiner and that’s it just checking the box I’ve had attorneys going to take a whole different point of view and want to try to extract as much value as possible and get to lots of different alternative embodiments the claim will be very broad trying to get you the most value for your invention thinking well beyond just trying to get past the one examiner but thinking ahead toward potential litigation putting your application in good position if ever you need to enforce your patent against a would-be infringer having the education having the knowledge in order to read case law helps when you wanted craft your spec the specification needs to have language so that if it were to go to a litigation under 35 USC 271 you know Markman hearing regarding you know construction of claims would be very clear and be in your favor because the way that those have been defined in the specification has already crafted so I pulled patents we have just patent attorneys we know exactly what to do we understand the law and yet we think about how that’s gonna be implemented not just today not just getting you the patent but how it’s gonna be the your ace and the sleeve if ever this comes down to litigation so if you have more questions about patent applications you know trying to you know go toward you know the right route not doing any shortcuts talk with a patent attorney here I pulled pens we do a free 30-minute consultation visit our website at bold patents calm or call us at
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