Filed under: Patent basics
People research to find new things or invent something useful for the future world. The sentence is easy to read or say but it is involves lot of hard work, dedication and struggle to get the results. These results needs some ownership as the hard work need not to be wasted with a one time copy of his work. There need to be some way to protect the invention. The best way to protect his invention is Patent. It gives substantial rights to the owner of the invention but not the complete rights. Here substantial me he can’t stop 100% to use his invention. Like if someone invented a vaccine for AIDS though he got patent on it he needs to definitely sell the rights to other people to make use of the invention. So, patent is a substantial protection of the invention but not complete.
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Design patents protect the design of any novel invention with proper utility. We can protect the visual characteristics through this design patents. Some of the examples of design patents include: Ornamental designs of jewelry, furniture, beverage containers and computer icons.
Life span:
The life time of the design patents is 14 years which is 6 years less than the utility patent.
Structure:
The design patent, by contrast, relies primarily upon the drawings to communicate what is protected. The design patent has only one claim. United States Design patent application will include a transmittal, a specification, drawings and a declaration.
First US design patent:
George Bruce was awarded the first design patent, U.S. Patent D1 . The design patent was for a new font.
US classification:
Classification of design patents is based on the concept of function or intended use of the industrial design disclosed and claimed in the Design patent.U.S. Design patents are classified into 33 classes.
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Filed under: Patent Sites
One of my readers have recommended this site and i have gone through this site. I have found lot of good stuff about US patents and it is a very good site for US patents where you can search the US patents and if u want to know about the recent US filing data you should definetly watch this site.
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*The number of people creating blogs in the US will reach over 35 million by 2012—roughly 16% of the Internet population.
*By 2012, more than 145 million people—67% of the US Internet population—will be reading blogs at least once a month.
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Verisign wins the patent on Internet typo redirection where the Internet users can find sites even when they mistype addresses.
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Nintendo Co., the world’s biggest maker of handheld game machines, ordered by the court to pay $21 million to a Texas company(Anascape Ltd.) for infringing a patent used in the Wii and GameCube systems. Nintendo have used the invention in their game controllers in which rectangular Wii remote and the “Nunchuk” controllers attached to the remote don’t violate the patent where as Wii Classic Controller, WaveBird controller and Nintendo GameCube violated the patent.
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1.Division-A later application for a distinct or independent invention, carved out of a pending application and disclosing and claiming only subject matter disclosed in the earlier or parent application.
2.Continuation-A second application for the same invention claimed in a prior nonprovisional application and filed before the original application becomes abandoned or patented.
3.Continuation-in-part(CIP)-A second or subsequent application being filed, which includes new material while the original application is pending.
Filed under: Patent Family
A patent family is a group of related patent publications(applications and granted patents) describing the same invention. The first application filed is priority application, and subsequent filings will list this number.
Patent families are also defined as equivalents or closely related patent families or extended patent families.
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Generally as per my experience i have seen patents having the family members are with in the same technology or field. But i found the below 2 patents which are not related even in technology or field.
US5682123 – Voltage Controlled Oscillator
AU2769395-Transgenic plants expressing ACC synthase gene
