Comments on: Fixing the Patent System — Publish Provisional and Abandoned Patents http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2007/01/fixing-the-patent-system-part-i/ Charles Merriam's loud tales of coding and technology Sun, 02 May 2010 17:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: charles http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2007/01/fixing-the-patent-system-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-51041 charles Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:54:18 +0000 http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/?p=43#comment-51041 First, the magic book on Patents is "Patent It Yourself" by Nolo Press. There is no substitute. You should be able to read and understand your own patents. Second, every patent application gets a rejection. A Rejection is part of a conversation between you and the patent office to determine exactly what is novel and should be covered by a patent. Handling rejections is cheap compared to filing patents. Third, pursuing patents generally protects your business. It is not the entire business. Go sell. Finally, there is no way of seeing abandoned patents. The knowledge is kept confidential and thus disappears. I was hoping that the patent office should publish the abandoned patents twenty years after they are filed so the knowledge is never lost. The "patent pending" claim is correct. There are cheap ways to get the moniker if you wish it. First, the magic book on Patents is “Patent It Yourself” by Nolo Press. There is no substitute. You should be able to read and understand your own patents.

Second, every patent application gets a rejection. A Rejection is part of a conversation between you and the patent office to determine exactly what is novel and should be covered by a patent. Handling rejections is cheap compared to filing patents.

Third, pursuing patents generally protects your business. It is not the entire business. Go sell.

Finally, there is no way of seeing abandoned patents. The knowledge is kept confidential and thus disappears. I was hoping that the patent office should publish the abandoned patents twenty years after they are filed so the knowledge is never lost.

The “patent pending” claim is correct. There are cheap ways to get the moniker if you wish it.

]]> By: Rod Reynolds http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2007/01/fixing-the-patent-system-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-50999 Rod Reynolds Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:51:52 +0000 http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/?p=43#comment-50999 See my above statement then I would like to ask if abondended patents are published. If so is there a way to look them up. I would also like to ask how one files for a patent themselves and where the information can be aquired. Thank you, Rod Reynolds See my above statement then I would like to ask if abondended patents are published. If so is there a way to look them up.

I would also like to ask how one files for a patent themselves and where the information can be aquired.

Thank you,
Rod Reynolds

]]> By: Rod Reynolds http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2007/01/fixing-the-patent-system-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-50998 Rod Reynolds Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:25:34 +0000 http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/?p=43#comment-50998 I have been ripped off by patent attorneys and people I have shown my inventions to all my life and never made a dime. This morning after having my patent attorney tell me that one of my patent applications, which I might add was not suposed to be filed as another patent but was an addition to the original patent came back as rejected. When I talked to my attorney he told me if I thought the second application was the one I was going to use I should abandon both. One year earlier he had told me I could go ahead with Pat Pend on the product! I had spent thousands and thousands on the original. It finally came to me! Maybe there are people that just search abandoned patents? So this morning I tried to find abandonded patents on google and came across this article. I was wondering because of the date on the article if there has been any recent changes to it. I am now 68 years old and have lost both my retirement and my saving to the stock market. Would patent attorneys be excluded from filing additional patents once they see an abandonded patent in their name or a friends name? I would be very interested to have this information because it give me a very good idea to bounce back after going broke. Thank you, Rod Reynolds I have been ripped off by patent attorneys and people I have shown my inventions to all my life and never made a dime. This morning after having my patent attorney tell me that one of my patent applications, which I might add was not suposed to be filed as another patent but was an addition to the original patent came back as rejected. When I talked to my attorney he told me if I thought the second application was the one I was going to use I should abandon both. One year earlier he had told me I could go ahead with Pat Pend on the product! I had spent thousands and thousands on the original.
It finally came to me! Maybe there are people that just search abandoned patents? So this morning I tried to find abandonded patents on google and came across this article.
I was wondering because of the date on the article if there has been any recent changes to it.
I am now 68 years old and have lost both my retirement and my saving to the stock market.
Would patent attorneys be excluded from filing additional patents once they see an abandonded patent in their name or a friends name?
I would be very interested to have this information because it give me a very good idea to bounce back after going broke.
Thank you,
Rod Reynolds

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