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Slaughter
| | Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 11:45 pm: | 
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Hex,
You will get hit up in the mail by a half-dozen people in the coming month suggesting that you buy their trophy or plaque with the engraved title page of your patent.
Looks kinda cool on a wall. Gonna set you back $100-ish |
Hex
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 12:38 am: |
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Thanks for the warning! I'm proud of you Zac, don't take this wrong, but I think I'll save the money, it's real tight right now. Squeak...(that's a penny) |
Reindog
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 12:48 am: |
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When you assign your patent rights to the company you work for (a requirement for employment), you get the plaque, maybe a coupla thousand $, and no reach around. I have three or five patents, I forget cuz it really doesn't matter to a scrubby like me. Hopefully, you'll be able to sell your patent rights for some righteous $.
Congratulations of your patent, Hex. Did you hire a patent attorney to write it? |
Hex
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 01:01 am: |
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I have a long time personal friend who is a registered Agent. He guided me in writing the patent, I did most of it, but it was a collaborative effort. I paid him what I could afford of his $100hr fees, doing most of it myself, and he was very gracious to allow me to slide a few invoices when I got identical rejection notices. The great thing now is, that I am closer to being able to write and navigate the whole process myself. I think it really helps to have an agent or attorney, those guys in DC don't like to talk to us civilians. |
Reindog
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 01:11 am: |
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That is NO easy task. I worked with our corporate patent attorney and I barely recognized my own invention when he was through with it. That is the power in generalizing the claims.
The example often given was a patent for "LED disco boots". Not general enough as it failed to prevent Nike et al from "inventing" LED sneakers which earned fortunes.
Hopefully you have claims for hexagonal whip antennas, horse buggy whips, disco whips, SM whips, nuclear submarine antennas, and toy thingies.
Again, congratulations. Not an easy task. |
Zac4mac
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 07:35 am: |
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Oh, I didn't buy that...
Company gave it to me with a little bonus.
Nowhere near what they gain from my IP, but it's not MINE anyway...
Z
I don't have kids, so that is MY lasting contribution to Society.
(Message edited by zac4mac on September 11, 2009) |
Buellinachinashop
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 09:24 am: |
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Hex, what's the name of the company gonna be?? Do you have a website? |
Hex
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 09:28 am: |
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It's in my profile:
www.ryanrodco.com |
Buellinachinashop
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 10:17 am: |
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bookmarked. |
Bill0351
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 12:36 pm: |
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Congratulations on your patent. I checked out your site. I have a good friend who is an avid fly fisherman. I will send him the link so he can check it out.
Bill |
Buellinachinashop
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 08:44 pm: |
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What's funyy is that Hex has waited years for this and the guy responsible for Patents just resigned.
Timing can be a biotch sometimes |
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