DIYPO is a how-to-patent route map, a fast-track hyperlink tool for novice entrepreneurs, backers and businessmen, which quickly gives you the big international picture. From a table of contents it hyper-links you to where you need to go next. This includes search engines, application sites, patent examples and the best IP advice that the author used to write and draw up patents.
It’s by an inventor who succeeded without an attorney, licensing his granted patents internationally. The aim is to neatly explain the entire process fast, not bog you down with copy thick enough to sell from a bookshelf.
BIG TIP: Lawyers first search patent databases for a product like yours. Using an existing patent as a template gives you concept, format and keywords. DIYPO has all the search links and explains how to patent in the UK, USA, Europe, Canada and Australia with patents all filed online in English.
Is your invention even patentable? Patent attorneys sell very expensive drawings and copy, why wouldn’t they smile at your idea? You are easy meat, enthusiastic and wide-eyed to get-rich-quick. Attorneys feed off corporate blood banks. Like selling car finance, they need to put you on the drip by reeling you in, not scaring you off with the true picture - many fees across twenty years, which increase as your patent reaches each hurdle. No attorney will guarantee your patent will be granted or refund fees if it fails, as many do. DIYPO lists official fees for various baskets of foreign patents, chickenfeed compared to attorney fees. You need to understand exactly what you are getting into, especially if you use an attorney.
Don’t pay US Provisional Patent fees, get the same US protection free. Why didn’t you read that anywhere? There’s lots on the internet - ads for attorneys, leaving out costs and what to do. There’s also the European EPO website - a nightmare, worse than the USIPO. Unfortunately the brilliant IPO website only deals with the UK and doesn’t explain international costs and protocol, like the complexity of the European patent and the PCT route to delay payment until you find a backer.
Patenting is international. A patent begins on the ‘filing date’ by ‘filing first’ in a single territory. Wherever you live, including the USA, file first in the UK and you have a year to find a backer before filing all foreign applications. If after filing your UK patent and hawking it around nobody is interested, abandon it within the year and it will have cost you nothing. If there is interest, the advance should cover all fees including your US Non-provisional, European, Canadian and Australian patent applications, all starting with the UK filing date.
A granted UK patent costs £230 in total, around $350 or 270€, incredible value for the assistance you will receive from the fantastic UK IPO, which has no switchboard, somebody helpful and knowledgeable actually answers the phone promptly! The rest are worse than utility providers. Phone the USPTO or the EPO and judge for yourself, all the links are in DIYPO. The USIPO will run you around on mission impossible. The EPO will connect you to a call logger and get back three days later.
Disclosing your invention to anyone other than a patent office or attorney puts it in the public domain. Amazon digitally protects ebooks, you can't print them out, so DIYPO has links to everything you need to print out, like international application forms and a well-written nondisclosure agreement (NDA).
DIYPO is packed with advice, tips, gems and facts, some that attorneys won’t tell you and some they don’t know because, like patent attorney authors, they leave foreign patent filing to foreign colleagues. Even if you use an attorney, you need to ask the right questions, especially about fees, including international.
DIYPO is simply where you start. It’s an Amazon IP Best Seller precisely because it does exactly what it says on the cover - fast.
http://www.diypatentonline.com
It’s by an inventor who succeeded without an attorney, licensing his granted patents internationally. The aim is to neatly explain the entire process fast, not bog you down with copy thick enough to sell from a bookshelf.
BIG TIP: Lawyers first search patent databases for a product like yours. Using an existing patent as a template gives you concept, format and keywords. DIYPO has all the search links and explains how to patent in the UK, USA, Europe, Canada and Australia with patents all filed online in English.
Is your invention even patentable? Patent attorneys sell very expensive drawings and copy, why wouldn’t they smile at your idea? You are easy meat, enthusiastic and wide-eyed to get-rich-quick. Attorneys feed off corporate blood banks. Like selling car finance, they need to put you on the drip by reeling you in, not scaring you off with the true picture - many fees across twenty years, which increase as your patent reaches each hurdle. No attorney will guarantee your patent will be granted or refund fees if it fails, as many do. DIYPO lists official fees for various baskets of foreign patents, chickenfeed compared to attorney fees. You need to understand exactly what you are getting into, especially if you use an attorney.
Don’t pay US Provisional Patent fees, get the same US protection free. Why didn’t you read that anywhere? There’s lots on the internet - ads for attorneys, leaving out costs and what to do. There’s also the European EPO website - a nightmare, worse than the USIPO. Unfortunately the brilliant IPO website only deals with the UK and doesn’t explain international costs and protocol, like the complexity of the European patent and the PCT route to delay payment until you find a backer.
Patenting is international. A patent begins on the ‘filing date’ by ‘filing first’ in a single territory. Wherever you live, including the USA, file first in the UK and you have a year to find a backer before filing all foreign applications. If after filing your UK patent and hawking it around nobody is interested, abandon it within the year and it will have cost you nothing. If there is interest, the advance should cover all fees including your US Non-provisional, European, Canadian and Australian patent applications, all starting with the UK filing date.
A granted UK patent costs £230 in total, around $350 or 270€, incredible value for the assistance you will receive from the fantastic UK IPO, which has no switchboard, somebody helpful and knowledgeable actually answers the phone promptly! The rest are worse than utility providers. Phone the USPTO or the EPO and judge for yourself, all the links are in DIYPO. The USIPO will run you around on mission impossible. The EPO will connect you to a call logger and get back three days later.
Disclosing your invention to anyone other than a patent office or attorney puts it in the public domain. Amazon digitally protects ebooks, you can't print them out, so DIYPO has links to everything you need to print out, like international application forms and a well-written nondisclosure agreement (NDA).
DIYPO is packed with advice, tips, gems and facts, some that attorneys won’t tell you and some they don’t know because, like patent attorney authors, they leave foreign patent filing to foreign colleagues. Even if you use an attorney, you need to ask the right questions, especially about fees, including international.
DIYPO is simply where you start. It’s an Amazon IP Best Seller precisely because it does exactly what it says on the cover - fast.
http://www.diypatentonline.com
