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Invest in the Right Patent
If you are going to invest in a patent, invest in the right patent. The seemingly obvious question "what shall I patent" is by no means an easy one to answer. When an inventor creates something new, he or she often creates a new technology or technique that can give rise to a number of different patents. Since patents are expensive and time consuming to get , its important to carefully choose which elements of the new technology to seek patents on.
There are a number of issues to be considered here: Is the invention patentable at all? Is it best protected by a patent? What is the order in which patents should be sought?
If money is no object a company can file a "thicket" or portfolio of patents. Usually the starting point is an Omnibus system patent which covers the whole inventive concept but doesn't put a lot of time into details of what makes up the system.
This Omnibus application is then followed by a series of patents on subsystems and sometime even individual devices or materials if such elements are part of the inventive concept.
When cost is a bigger concern the subsystem patents can be delayed by holding them as trade secrets until such time as sufficient funds are available to fund them if the idea succeeds commercially.
Since every invention consists of known and new elements, a good patent search will identify those elements of the invention that can be protected and separate them from those elements owned by others or in the public domain. Such a search at the right time can help answer the question of "what to patent" and save money too.
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 Wastewater from municipal and commercial sources often contains metals that may be environmental contaminants or could pose a health risk if they get into public water supplies. However, some of those metals are also worth a good deal of money if they can be extracted at reasonable cost.
In a series of six patents Professor Larry Tavelrides of ITTr client Syracuse University has developed processes that target specific metals in wastewater streams.
Included in the patents are those that target Gold, Germanium and the increasingly significant and strategic Rare Earth's whose declining supply is controlled by the Chinese.
Each pair of patents contains one on a catalyst which targets a particular metal and a process for removing the metal when it is scavenged from the wastewater stream by the catalyst.
If you want to learn more about these patents please go to our website ITTr |
Penguin to Launch New Website
o For some time the Penguin website has not been what we would want it to be . Built by inexperienced staff using an inferior web tool it had serious problems when viewed on with different browsers. It was also difficult to make changes to. Even when we hired experts with HTML coding skill we were never able to get the site to work right.
Now we have decided to use a new approach. Through the facility of Goggles' Sites we have created an entirely new website. The new site is clean crisp and can be edited easily by any of the Penguin staff, even those who know nothing whatsoever about HTML.
When we built the new site we also added information on Trade Show Followup and Sherlock's Finders. The web listings for these products had previously been shown as "under construction". So try out our new website and feel free to tell us what you think about it. Just click the link below.
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