Patent CEO is a patent company located in the southern state of Florida, USA. It has offices located in various major metropolitan centers located throughout the state including the cities of Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville and Sarasota.
PATENTS
Patents are legal documents containing drawings and text that described the concepts intended to be protected thereby. There are various type of patents available in various jurisdictions worldwide including plant, genetic, design, utility and more.
DESIGN
Design application essentially cover the ornamental appearance of an item and have a potential of 14 years of protection. Thus, the actual working components, whether mechanical, electrical, software or otherwise, does not come into play with a DESIGN application as these would definitely fall under UTILITY. On the other hand, many of the aforementioned can have a DESIGN associated with it. For example, a Mercedes Benz, Corvette or similar car can have a unique appearance DESIGN application as well as numerous UTILITY patents associated with it about the associated mechanical, electrical, software and so forth.
UTILITY
Utility applications can cover machines, processes, articles of manufacture, chemical composition, business methods and similar types of inventions. Utility patent applications are broken down into two different types further described below: PROVISIONAL and NON-PROVISIONAL.
PROVISIONAL
A PROVISIONAL patent application is a temporary 1 year application that NEVER matures to a patent itself. Thus, to gain the benefit of a PROVISIONAL, one must file a NON-PROVISIONAL application claiming the date of the earlier filed PROVISIONAL or temporary application within the filing year of the aforementioned. For a newly filed PROVISIONAL application to be valid, it must have an adequate written description of an invention have an enabling disclosure of the invention along with all corresponding drawings necessary to disclose the invention. As these matters tend to follow established legal procedure, only a professional should write an application as leaving out critically important details could harm your patent rights.
NON-PROVISIONAL
A NON-PROVISIONAL application has a twenty year potential monopoly right. It is the type of application that is examined for patentability by a United States patent examiner in one of the offices spread throughout the US; however, they are primarily located in Northern Virginia near Washington DC. The examiner usually has some background in the subject matter he or she is examining. Because of this, the applicant is provided with a thorough review of the existing prior art hrough US search systems, foreign databases, and various non patent literature services available to the patent examiner.
Once the examiner has reviewed the fundamentals of your case, he or she will provide a first office action opinion of the merits of the application; either allowing the application to issue or rejecting some or all thereof. In any case, an applicant has the right to respond to this action and even appeal it to an internal board of judges within the USPTO at a later date.
Expectations
Expect a respectful, pleasant, professional experience with intelligent hard working attorneys and agents having experience in a variety of fields. Additionally, we expect clients to reciprocate and that they cooperate with all requests for information, imagery, technical materials and more regarding the simple and or complex components of your invention.
In this regard, applicants should timely respond to all inquiries from the patent practitioner assigned to you as that facilitates the process of obtaining a patent. Inventor delays in returning forms and providing documentation whether written or electronic can also slow down processing and this time will be prorated to the amount of time necessary to file the application.
Applicants filing for patents in various technologies can contact the firm at its general number of 1.877.772.8236.