Patents

What Is a Patent?

There are three types of patents:

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Example An illustration from Thomas Edison’s 1879 patent on an electric light, his first such device. Edison expanded on the ideas in this patent throughout his career, claiming hundreds of patents related to electric lighting.

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Patent Protection

What Can Be Patented

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Example The vast majority of inventions are actually improvements on existing technology, not new items. The camcorder is essentially a combination of a video camera and a tape recorder.tape It is a unique idea to combine them into one unit. It was so innovative, in fact, that when Jerome Lemelson first submitted the idea to the patent office in 1977, it was rejected as an absurd notion. When the invention was eventually patented, it launched a flood of portable video machines. If you search for the term "camcorder" in the U.S. Patent Office's database, you will find more than a thousand separate patents. A modern camcorder is a combination of hundreds of patented inventions. An illustration from U.S. patent # 5,375,430, a 'gravity-powered shoe air- conditioner.' Like many inventions, this device does not introduce any new concepts, but instead combines two existing concepts in an original way. The shoes, patented in 1994 by Israel Siegel, are powered by the walking motion of the user. Each time you take a step, your heel works to activate the air-conditioner compressor and expander.

Adaptations on Patents

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Patents affect society in a number of a ways:

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A Dust Cover for a DOG ???? Really Guys? Illustration for U.S. patent # 3,150,641, a dust cover for a dog. In addition to keeping dust off the dog, the 1964 invention is designed to keep flea-treatment products on the dog's skin while the chemicals are working. The patent explains that the dust cover could also be used to dry the dog after a bath. You blast a hair dryer into the provided port, and the hot air circulates all around the dog's body.

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Maintaining a Patent

How do you know if someone has already thought of your invention? Searching by Patent Number: This is the easiest way to find out about an invention!Searching by Patent Number Searching by Inventor's Name: This sometimes requires a little detective work, but you can do it!Searching by Inventor's Name

Independent Inventor Resources A section of the USPTO’s Web site ( is devoted to independent inventors (site is entitled “Independent Inventor Resources”) and offers a broad range of material covering most aspects of the patent and trademark process. Mail Stop 24 Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA For additional information on the patent process, telephone the Inventors Assistance Center at: Telephone PTO-9199

Don’t be a Daniel Drawbaugh! But for the lack of witnessed notebooks describing the device, the man known as the inventor of the telephone would have been a talented mechanic by the name of Daniel Drawbaugh. Similar disputes have raged over who invented the automobile, the electric light, and the laser, and in all of them, records- or lack thereof- played a deciding role. The telephone case is a classic example. Even though Drawbaugh was able to produce hundreds of witnesses to testify that he had talked over a crude telephone long before Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent application in 1875, he had not a scrap of paper dating and describing the invention. The Supreme Court rejected his claims in 1888, by the narrow margin of four votes to three. As the sad case of Daniel Drawbaugh indicates, U.S. patent practice places a premium on witnessed records when two or more parties claimed the same invention. The date the idea occurred (the “conception”) and the date it was put into practice (“reduced to practice”) are vital. Equally important in the eyes of the Patent Office is the “diligence” shown by contending inventors. They must prove that they regularly pursued work on the invention, documenting their efforts on a day by day basis.

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