Treaties and Foreign Patents
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AMERICA - What a Country !!
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--> This is one big world. The latest survey shows that three out of four people make up 75% of the world's total population :-) When you obtain a U.S. Registered Patent, you are protected only for the area within the United States of America and its sovereign territories and nowhere else. ---- The United States of America contains over * 305,395,373 people and you may think that this is a lot? The World contains over *6,729,667,742 people .. and THAT is a lot! [*10/12/2008] - Over 95.37% more people than your conceptual market for business. ---- Census, Scope, Census 2000 Data, Charts, Maps and Rankings -- To impress you further, there are 140 patent offices of which the United States Patent Office is only one among the many of them. -- To impress you still further, there are over 30-million patents filed in those foreign patent offices. -- There are a lot of creative people dreaming-up new ideas that lead to inventions that are worthy of obtaining "Patents." --> To prove to the USPTO that 'you' deserve a patent, you have to provide the examiners - from your research - the "prior art" of the many issued U.S. Utility Patents, the found non-patented inventions relating to your "idea," and the found foreign patents pertaining to your invention as well. -- To do this monumental task, use both the research facilities of the PTO and the assistance of Delphion, Inc. -- Go to: --> www.delphion.com -- -- The Delphion Web site was charging $29.00 for use of a 1-Day Patent Pass in its search facility prior to July 2002. That fee has been waived. You may now use the "Basic service" on its site for FREE. -- You will find that Delphion goes further in depth with their research than the USPTO and provides a more useful research source (at this time.)
-- You've almost worn yourself out and now you are about ready to take-on the world. -- Start with one person. Sell him or her your product. Now find number two; more people. Sell them. Keep going. Keep selling your product one-at-a-time. -- After you've sold twelve dozen, you can provide a 'track record' of your 'nailed-down' proven sales. You have product acceptance. --> --> Yes!! --> You Have Product Identity Proof!! --> --> You are on your way -- on the road to millions. -- You say that there is a company out there on the Internet that says it will help you obtain a patent and that they can do 'it all' for you? Don't you believe this, no company can do that.
-- You say that if that company sends you a hand signed Nondesclosure form, that you can trust them? - Again, don't you believe them. That's the hook to pull you in. They have provided you with a ND form that is a 'lose-lose' for you. You better read the fine print and ask a lawyer what it means?
-- When you want an honest answer to an Invention Problem, call upon a Patent Attorney or a Patent Agent and ask him or her your inventive questions. Most legal problems about Inventions will be answered over the telephone and by going to see them at their offices. Stop worrying. Most patent practitioners won't charge you for their first half-hour.-- And it's best getting a second and third opinion. -- Read: --> "2,500 Years of Communications History" Part 1: 500 BC - 1899 AD" -- --> Continue Reading:
--> " .. Part 2: 1900 to the present day" -- "St. Louis Small Business Monthly" -- -- --> "Robots wimp out in desert run"
-- --> "DARPA Report" -- --
-- --> Robot R&D Races Forward:
-- OCT 2005: Last weekend, 23 teams competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a race of robot cars across a complicated, 130-mile, off-road course in the Mojave Desert. The winner was "Stanley," a highly modified Volkswagen Touareg entered by a team from Stanford University. To win, Stanley had to handle the desert course without any human help--using only the artificial intelligence his engineers gave him, plus what his learning software gleaned from practice in the desert. For their efforts, Stanley's builders win $2 million, plus a significant spot in the history of robotics. Until this year, no robot car had ever finished such a race. -- "Driverless SUV wins $2 million Pentagon race - Invention - MSNBC.com" -- -- "Robot maker’s fortune built on a simple idea" --
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Intellectual Property (IP) Acronyms
Around 1995, the repartee "Freaken" entered the Lexicon.
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-- -- WHERE DID THE WHITE
MAN GO WRONG? -- --
-- Indian Chief, "Two Eagles," was asked by a white government official, "You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done."
-- The Chief nodded in agreement.
-- The official continued, "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?"
-- The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. "When white man find land, Indians running it. No taxes, No debt, Plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, Clean Water; women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex."
-- Then the chief leaned back and smiled.
-- "Only white man dumb enough think he improve system like that." -- -- "Knows-It-All" -- --
-- -- The European Patent Office -- Journey back -- -- Many of the Intellectual Property (IP) acronyms are a result of treaties.
e.g. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); European Patent Convention (EPC); European Patent Office (EPO); European Union (EU); International Patent Documentation Center (INPADOC); International Patent Institute (IIB) -- Consumer Price Index - Urban (CPI-U); Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Prosecution Applications (CPA); American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA); Department of Commerce (DOC); North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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"People who need to justify the value of computer equipment that they donate to charity, frequently use prices cited by Internet recycling services.."
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-- The CPI-U in 2001 was 3.6%; in 2002, 1.5%; in 2003, 2.8%; and in 2007, 2.3%. -- --> "News: Sports Computer Language Unveiled" -- --> How to find out what certain pre-owned computers, lap-tops, printers, etc., are worth?
-- -- "People who need to justify the value of computer equipment that they donate to charity, frequently use prices cited by Internet recycling services, such as, www.recycle.net/computer/-- used to estimate a computer's value.
-- A more precise approach is to pay $9.95
to the American Computer Exchange (www.amcoex.com)for an online appraisal that evaluates the features in a given computer system and estimates what it should be worth as salvage. [intelligentmailbag@flogo.com]
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SUCCESS is when a stranger states, "I sat next to him in class at school."
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-- SUCCESS:
At age 4, success is: - not peeing in your pants.
At age 12, success is: - having friends.
At age 16, success is: - having a driver's license.
At age 17, success is: - having sex.
At age 35, success is: - having money.
At age 40, success is: - having good health.
At age 50, success is: - having money.
At age 69, success is: - having sex.
At age 70, success is: - having a drivers license.
At age 75, success is: - having friends.
At age 80, success is: - not peeing in your pants. ;-))--{ NEWS FLASH - READ BELOW }-- -- Hold it!! -->
-- -- We've just learned of another company that is aggressively seeking new products from inventors. M&M Fitness Equipment, which is a licensee of Everlast, is looking for folks who have new fitness and cardio equipment. If you don't recognize the name Everlast, you should! It's synonymous with boxing. If you have something in the fitness and cardio equipment line, contact M&M Fitness at 212-822-1566 or send an email to ronk@msgmail.com.
-- I received a request from Patent Attorney, Charles Mc Closkey on 10/19/2006:
-- "Bob:
A local business broker firm seeks patentees with patents in soy based oil for elevators. If you know of anybody, have them give me a call. Chuck" legale@socket.net - 314-872-8136 - Charles Carroll McCloskey IV -- Some have asked whether they can get a patent for an existing invention? The real question to ask, "Why would I ever want this invention patented?"
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Additional Notes:
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--> "National Pet Products & Lawn & Garden Conference Set for June, 2008" --> --> An exciting concept in trade shows has emerged in recent years called 'Controlled Marketing Conferences (CMC)' which was created by Bob Mikulas of Monument, Colorado. The CMC eliminates the hassle out of walking the isles looking for a potential distributor and/or rep organization to handle your product. -- Vendors (inventors and/or manufacturers) with products ready for the marketplace, preferably patented or patent pending, are given appointments with retail buyers interested in their type of product. Buyers from the larger multi-store operations (not the Marts) are given 10 minutes with each vendor. This time limit forces everyone to get serious in a hurry. Networking, glad handing and socializing are left to meal times and non-show hours. -- "Our appeal to the buyer is simple; to have the buyer see up to 50 vendors over a short period of time - often vendors they would not see at a typical trade event, therefore exposing them to companies previously unknown to them", stated Mikulas. -- It's face to face with a captive audience and no outside interruption. Appointments are pre-scheduled and, as a vendor, you get to select who you want to see. Buyer attendees include national & regional trade chains, buying groups, Co-ops, wholesale distributors and catalog companies. -- The Pet Product Conference ran in 2007, with the Lawn & Garden Conference at the Rosemount Convention Center, Chicago. the second week of June. -- Vendors displayed their products in either the Point of Purchase Showcase or the New Product Prototype Review. -- Interested parties can call 1-888-316-0226 for conference information and booth space - TODAY!" -- {Thanks - Minnesota's "Inventors Network" - Its Mission: To foster invention and help inventors with responsive information through networking and education.
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It makes you think !!
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http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/treaties.htm -- Give me a few minutes and I'll make a few points. -->
I'll tell you a story that will tie-in to several angles that an Inventor must truly consider, which are:
1. Read closely the instructions. Read the fine print.
2. Read the contract like a lawyer would. Ask questions? Get facts. Know the answers before asking the final question.
3. Know that "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true, in nine cases out of ten. !!" --->-- -- Manny Fink the Tailor -- -- -- One can't be prepared for every eventuality and this story has to do with an executive having to step-in and give a lecture at his company's business meeting: -- It was a very important speech that he alone would have to give and his company depended upon him. The problem was that he had lost quite a bit of weight from dieting, around sixty pounds, and his suit fit him terribly. He needed a tailor, quickly!!
-- The executive remembered seeing a tailor shop in the neighborhood and he rushed right out with the oversized suit. -- Sure enough, the tailor shop was there just like he remembered it. There was that large sign painted on the brick wall: ** FINE TAILORING **
{{{* MANNY FINK *}}}
~ WHAT YOU THINK
I DO MENDING FREE -- Manny says to the Executive, "Vell, you vant it qvick. I can do that. I'll have it ready in four hours. - Here, let's try it on. -- I'll make adjustments."
-- The Executive could hardly believe it. -- [He thinks to himself, "I need it done. I need it done quickly. And I need it done by a professional who knows what he is doing. From the looks of this tailor shop, this Manny Fink must have been in business for years...and he'll do it RIGHT - for FREE!! -- The sign says so on the wall."] -- When the Executive gets back to Manny Fink's in about four hours, he is pleased to try-on his altered suit. -- It looked and fit perfectly. It looked like a new custom made suit. He was overjoyed. -- "Wrap it up. I'll take it," said the Executive. -- "That suit vas very hard for me to do. I verked mine fingers to the bone. I even had mine assistant help me out and ve rushed to get your suit done in-time. - Single needle threads.. That vill be $435.00 for labor for mine verk. For you, a bargain." -- "What are you saying!! The wall sign says in big bold letters, "Manny Fink, what you think? I do mending for Free!!" -- Manny Fink looks him in the eyes and says: "Mr. Bigshot, who who, you crazy? You can't read? It says, "Manny Fink. What! - You think I do mending for Free!?" Gimme $435.00 for mine mending NOW or you don't get mine suit. Ver did you go to school ver they say you can get sumting fer nuting?" -- "Internet lending sites come under stress - International Herald Tribune" --
-- "FBI says Dark Market sting netted 56 arrests" --
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