Confused on what type of patent you should file for your invention or new product innovation idea?
Undecided on what patent to file for your idea? Will it be for a Design or Utility Patent? The answer is on what your invention is about and the Design Patent may always be filed alongside a utility patent for they do have different purposes. A Design Patent is a protection of your idea’s visual elements and is not that expensive to file and is valid for 14 years. Why filing a Utility Patent is necessary is because if even if you have a Design Patent, it won’t protect your invention ideas functionality from being copied and patented by someone else. They simply just have to change the design which is, if yours is designed round, they’d design their product square and legally patent it because you didn’t. Do you need help with your idea?
Based here in Long Island-New York since the early 1990’s, we provide Patent and Industrial Engineering services for inventors and companies. If you have a unique idea and no matter where you are located in the United States, we will cost effectively help legally protect, patent, validate and prototype your idea and realistically turn it into reality. Should you come to us, before we discuss your ideas, we shall responsibly draft and sign a None Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with you. If you do speak with other NPD (New Product Development) firms like us about your invention ideas, be advised to sign a full NDA with them as well because, your idea can be easily copied and stolen from you and this is to protect your Intellectual Property‘s (IP).
With our services in helping to turn your idea into reality, we follow incremental steps and strategies known as Evolutionary Product Development (EPD) that reduce risks and minimize unnecessary wasted time, expenses and overall costs. We shall immediately proceed to legally protect your idea and shall file your PPA (Provisional Patent Application) with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office). Why we opt to file a PPA for you first is because, it is the quickest way to have your idea legally protected for at least a year from its effective date. It establishes your intellectual property’s earlier filing date and delays your idea’s examination while, we proceed to validating your idea and designing your prototype.
We can thereafter proceed to registering your Design Patent once your virtual prototype’s design is finalized. Note that, before your PPA expires in twelve months, your Utility Patent or Non Provisional Patent Application (NPPA) should be registered otherwise, the priority date that the PPA gave you is lost. Once we are ready and have filed your Regular Patent Application also known as Utility Patent or Non Provisional Patent Application, your application is than placed into queue on a first-come, first-served basis and can be examined from 18 months or after. If you think 18 months is a long time to wait to find out if your patent will be granted, you can like many other companies, apply for Expedited Examination that will get your patent application examined from 4 – 6 months.
Trusting us with your idea, we shall be 100% committed to your idea’s end product’s success and profitability. We shall also ensure that your Idea is properly Validated so that you are properly advised that your idea is indeed worthwhile to turn into reality. Your idea’s validation is important and should be wisely performed before we fully proceed to your idea’s prototyping because, it involves the process of Patent Research with the USPTO, to establish the fact that your idea is really unique to avoid future Patent Infringement Lawsuits. We shall also in validating your idea, conduct Feasibility Studies to find out if your idea has a market to sell to and from the data of the market prototype testing, improve and perfect your final prototype’s design and functions.
Do not waste your idea, hire us now so you don’t have to be guessing every next steps of your idea’s inventing process. With our help, we will realistically turn your idea into a future proofed 100% profitable end product, Contact Us!
