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Low Quality Service Providers, Part II

Originally Posted 2/26/05

Last month I wrote about “low cost providers”. This month I talk about an even more insidious provider, “the high priced charlatans”. I mentioned in the previous article that below market pricing was a pretty good way of identifying patent practitioners that as a general rule provide low quality patent applications and associated […]

October 14th, 2008|

Low Quality Patent Service Providers, Part 1

Originally Posted 1/29/06 

A while back I promised to write an article about low quality patent providers or perhaps I should say patent providers that provide low quality patent applications and other services. Well, here is the first of which will likely become a series on the topic. This installment discusses the dreaded “low cost provider”.

The […]

October 14th, 2008|

Client Spotlight #3

Originally Posted 1/4/06 

Tactical Video Solutions is the producer of video camera that mounts on the end of a semi-automatic pistol’s magazine, and feeds video to a small LCD screen that is typically mounted on the user’s wrist.

SWAT and other law enforcement personal can use the camera to see around blind corners expossing only their firearm […]

October 14th, 2008|

Client Spotlight #2

Originally Posted 12/15/05 

The title of this entry, “Client Spotlight”, is particularly appropriate for this client, Camerabright!, Inc.

The company manufactures a unique LED light that fits into the tripod mount of a camera. The light serves several purposes: (1) it can be used to illuminate a scene to facilitate video capture using a digital camera or […]

October 14th, 2008|

How to choose a patent attorney

Originally Posted on 11/8/05 

Below is an updated version of an article I had published about a year and a half ago at www.Troubleshooter.com. For those who have not read the original enjoy.

And in one of my future posts, I will offer some additional pointers on choosing a good patent attorney. Unfortunately, I have found […]

October 14th, 2008|

Control Protect and Leverage, Part III

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JUNE 12, 2005 BY KURT P. LEYENDECKER

And here it is… The newest installment in what was intended as a three part post but is threatening to become a book! I hope not!

Having covered protecting patents in Part II, we will consider protecting Trademarks in this entry.

Unlike patents, the Federal government does not grant […]

October 14th, 2008|

Control Protect & Leverage Part V

Originally Posted 10/27/05 

It has been awhile since I wrote Part IV and since this last and final Part deals with leveraging patents, I suggest you go back and read Part II first which deals with protecting your IP especially as it pertains to patents.

This is perhaps the most difficult topic to write about (at least […]

October 14th, 2008|

The 10% Rule?!

Originally posted on 9/8/05

My wife sent me a link the other day to a brief story about the mominventors.com guidebook by Tamara Monosoff. The book was just recently published. After reading the brief article, I became quite steamed! What a bunch of misinformation. I was so mad I ordered the book from Amazon. Is […]

October 13th, 2008|

The Ethics of Infringement

Originally posted 8/30/05 

The Ethics of Infringement

Recently, I was visiting the blog of a law student/patent agent/soon to be attorney that Kurt and I know. He wrote an entry in response to a comment he received from one of his articles concerning a MythTV project of his (from what we could gather MythTV is somewhat similar […]

October 13th, 2008|

So you want to write your own patent application!

Originally posted on 8/28/05 

Can I prepare the patent application myself? This seems to be a very common question lately among prospective clients. I have addressed this issue in my FAQ page on the firm’s website, but I believe this question is deserving of additional consideration here.

First, let us start with a common misconception concerning patent […]

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