Total agree with this last comment. Good advice early usually costs far less
than paying for things to be fixed up later. The number of times I've seen
people take shortcuts to achieve false economies is amazing.
cheers,
Roger
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:03 PM, 1_Place wrote:
> Please consid
Please consider the issues raised and, if unclear or want
verification, run them passed a patent attorney.
In most cases, a patent attorney will answer your questions at no cost
so long as it does not tie them up for too long. I am happy to answer
specific questions via a telephone call if you ne
Hi Everyone,
thought I should chip in here... as I've helped a number of companies with
their patents in terms of structuring them to get granted, their overall IP
strategy, and helping them work more efficiently with Australian and US
attorneys.
Some thoughts to consider:
*1) Patents should be
Rich, have a look at the discussion thread 'Random thought on IP
protection' from last August.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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Hi Richard,
Trademarkyes for logos. Apologies if it was a bit of a stretch.
One "trick" is to embed the product design a part of the logo or name,
then the trademark covers both. Like I said though, it's not that
much protection, and from the sounds of things isn't applicable to you
anyways.
WowI wonder what that does to Twitter!
On 23/03/2010, at 11:41 PM, Jeromy Evans wrote:
>> Facebook wanting to patent the concept of "social networking"...or probably
>> more appropriate to use MySpace as an example. So it's kinda the layout of
>> the site and the way it does what it does t
>Facebook wanting to patent the concept of "social networking"...or probably
>more appropriate to use MySpace as an example. So it's kinda the layout of
>the site and the way it does what it does that we were looking to protect.
Just for fun, here's US patent 7,669,123:
"Dynamically providing a
Your last point is a very good point and I must say, I kinda wanted that $5K
for marketing and for further developing the website that can help it generate
some income.
When I say there's nothing like it yet, I know your concernI mean, I've
never seen anything like it, no one else I've spok
Hello Rich,
Welcome to the group!
You can patent just about anything, but that doesn't necessarily
protect you. Example: a very large aerospace company received a
patent for *every* wireless transmission in space, to discourage
development in wireless subsystems. Completely worthless to them,
s
