This Handbook provides an overview of federal patent and trademark law. Information discussed includes types of patents and trademarks, duration of registration, requirements for obtaining, a guide to the application process, protecting your patent or trademark, and much more in 18 pages of materials.
A stepbystep overview of a patent application and maintenance process. The five stages of a patent process.Utility patents have claims that describe what products or processes may be relevant to the coverage of the patent. Read what the steps to file a patent are in this simple guide. Making sure your intellectual property is safely guarded can make or break your business. Online filing for Trade Names and Trademarks has been fully implemented and PDF forms are no longer accepted. After the applicant files a patent application, the applicant can mark the corresponding product as "Patent. Pending. Pursuing overly broad claims may even cause lasting damage to your patent application. So, it will take you 2-3 weeks to turn around a draft application in a typical situation. Yes, you can improve an existing technology (base technology) and can get a patent over it.