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| Service is to do with wide-ranging scientific background,
extensive business experience at the start up and medium size businesses,
lengthy experience as a patent specialist and Chief Patent Officer. |
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| The
"Do-It-Yourself" Route |
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This approach, which relies on your own searching and drafting abilities, is the
route taken by many inventors and involves no outlay, providing a level of
protection for your idea. It means you can begin to seek investors, partners,
etc and then when you have got more money, an improved application can be filed
during the year following your first application. It is also a good approach at
the very early stages of your idea, as it enables you to capture its essence at
an early stage. Further filings can be made during the year following filing as
the idea develops. |
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Information and help on how to do-it-yourself is
available.
The do-it-yourself approach is Option 1 in the Table below. |
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Even with a reasonable do-it-yourself draft, you are a hostage to fortune if
there are articles or patents that remove the novelty and inventive step of your
idea. Option 2 addresses this issue, and once you have got your draft, you can
pay the Application Fee (�30) and the Search Fee (�100) and ask the IPO to do a
search.
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| Free pre-filing check and
assessment |
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I offer a free pref-filing check and assessment of your draft – I will look
through your draft and report back to you whether it’s any good or not. I will
also file it on your behalf if wished. I will not however do any kind of search
– my assessment is based on your belief that what you have is novel and
inventive. This check is available for Options 1, 2 and 3.
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| Customised Search |
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A potentially poorly targeted search is avoided if you ask me to do the search,
because before I search worldwide documentation to help decide whether your idea
has novelty and an inventive step, I work closely with you to define exactly
what it is that your idea encompasses. That means the search is focussed
directly at your idea, which avoids the problems mentioned above related to
shortcomings in the way you have drafted your patent application, possibly
rendering the search done by the IPO inaccurate. I charge a maximum of �250 to
do a Search for an average invention. |
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A drawback of Option 2 is that you don’t get the search results for around four
months. A better patent draft can be done if the results of searching are to
hand, because articles or patents can be cited in your draft and differences
between your idea and these can be clearly stated. Option 3, where I do the
Search for you, gives you this information within about a week. Before I do the
search I make sure I am clear what it is that you consider to be the heart of
your invention, and do a focussed and relevant search.
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| Specialised Draft |
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Option 4 is when you want to get the best possible cover for you invention, and
here I harness the results of the search to draft a patent that is focussed on
your idea and the kind of business approach, seeking a scope of protection for
you idea whilst keeping in mind the likely product(s) or service(s) you will be
offering.
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