-- -- The Independent Inventor gets a fair representation at the USPTO:

-- "Search Templates Home" --

- NOTICE: DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT PROGRAM DISCONTINUED ON FEBRUARY 1ST, 2007 -
-- -- You missed the boat: The cheapest way to protect your inventive idea, yet the riskiest, was by using the U.S. Disclosure Document Program.
-- -- The BEST WAY is by seeing a patent attorney or patent agent to create a provisional patent application.

-->> "USPTO to Give Patent Filers Accelerated Review Option - Preposal would guarantee final decision in 12 months."

-- -- Patentlessons - Mini Lesson

-- Inventors: You are forewarned, that if you fall off the IASL pathway, the following is what you can find: Gobbledygook & Legalese to the Nth degree.
-- -->"Application for Patent"
-- --> Come to think of it, "Even if Lincoln wasn't shot, he'd still be dead today!" ;-)
-- --> "Find A Grave - Inventors" - your clue to 'boo who?' -->
-- --> Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
-- --> "NASA Technical Support Package Categories"

--- > "The only perfect science is hindsight."

--- > "6 February 2002" --

--- > "The Most Powerful Microscope in the World"

-- --> Entrepreneurs: "It's later than you think." --> Step Lively - Watch Your Step
-- --> "Murphy Laws Website - Technology Laws"
-- --> "Rube Goldberg Gallery"

-- Your mom or dad had to help you. You said to yourself, "Someday, when I'm a big boy, I'll be able to do it all by myself." -- Now that you're grown, a prototype is a model of your invention and you may have to put it together [now] by yourself? ;-)

-- Take a break :-) I'm reminded of the story of the father who was taking his medicine and swallowing a pill in front of his small son: "Daddy, let me...let me!" insisted the child. -- The father gave the child the bottle that was protected by the safety cap. -- The child twisted and twisted and of course couldn't get the cap off. -- The father said sternly to the boy, "It knows you're too little to take grown-up's medicine." The bewildered child looked at him, "How does 'it' know that I'm not a 'big' boy?" -- The father smiled, "It knows ...it knows." --

--> Anyway, those many models that were made years ago when it was necessary to submit a model to gain a patent, can be seen here: -- "The History of the Rothschild Patent Model Museum"

--> Also read "Invention Trivia 9811" -
('Vas u der, Cholly?' :-) then go back to the '40s, sit next to the radio and remember the answering of the telephone at "Duffy's Tavern": "Duffy's Tavern: Where the elite meet to eat meat. Archie the waiter speaking, Duffy's not here.." -->
"Recording History"

-- JON W. DUDAS -- Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

-- "Keynote Remarks - of his predecessor at the American Bar Association/Intellectual Property Law Section IPL Summer Conference -- Philadelphia, PA on June 27, 2002" --

-- "Strategic Plan 21st Century" --
-- "Strategic Plan Fee Bill" -- Fee Analysis

-- "Press Release, 05-41" --

-- JOHN CALVERT -- Director of the Office of Independent Inventor Programs - which was created in 1999 to provide the small entrepreneurial and independent inventors with a direct channel to the highest level of the Patent and Trademark Office.

-- The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The role of the Patent and Trademark Office is to grant patents for the protection of inventions and to register trademarks. It serves the interest of inventors and businesses with respect to their inventions and corporate products and service identifications. It also advises and assists the bureaus and offices of the Department of Commerce and other agencies of the Government in matters involving "intellectual property" such as patents, trademarks and semiconductor mask works. Through the preservation, classification, and dissemination of patent information, the Office aids and encourages innovation and the scientific and technical advancement of the nation. In discharging its patent related duties, the Patent and Trademark Office examines applications and grants patents on inventions when applications are entitled to them; it publishes and disseminates patent information, records assignments of patents, maintains search files of U.S. and foreign patents, and maintains a search room for public use in examining issued patents and records. It supplies copies of patents and official records to the public. Similar functions are performed relating to trademarks.