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...generally takes from 18 to 20 months to get a patent, though you can make a provisional short-term application for patent pending (telling the public that a patent is on file, but without the legal protection of a firm patent...
...learned one thing," says Mahaffey, who only too late began to do some research on the industry. "These companies don't do what they promise. They just make sure they get the money and you don't." Or, as Todd Dickinson, director of the Patent and Trademark Office, says, "Their best invention is themselves...
...your lawyer should do a thorough patent search--called a novelty search--to make sure your invention is special and can be proved to be different...
...PERFECTED HOME PICTUREPHONE: Any day now, engineers are going to figure out how to make videophones cheap enough for someone besides the chairman of Goldman Sachs to use at home. But "now" is the postderegulation telephonic age and the heyday of high-powered telemarketing. Do you have any idea what this means once the Picturephone becomes a common household appliance? It means: "Hi, I'm Kathie Lee Gifford singing the Trans-Vox Long Distance Weekend Offer Song!" "It's me, John Madden, inviting you to sign up now for a low-interest KashKard!" "Got a minute? I'd like...
...that used water instead of unfriendly Freon. Attaching a homemade nozzle to the end of tubing and connecting it to his bathroom sink, he carefully turned on the water. It shot out a stream so powerful that its air currents ruffled the curtains. "Eureka!" Johnson told himself. "This would make a great water...