New Client Inquiries
Thank you for your kind interest in working with me as your potential patent and trademark attorney. I appreciate recommendations of my law office for patent and trademark application preparation and prosecution. Further to your inquiry, I am providing introductory information on my law office that has often been helpful during preliminary review. Please remember legal advice on a specific situation would need to wait until you have a budget for my law office.
Brill IP Law Office
Background
My practice focuses primarily on helping people, businesses, and universities seek protection of inventions or commercial brands through application to government patent and trademark offices. You are welcome to review my background and patent samples.
My over twenty years of experience with several hundred projects has covered a wide range of electrical, software, healthcare, medical, computer, imaging, financial, telecommunications, mechanical, and clean technologies. In addition to a law degree, I hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an advanced degree in electrical and computer engineering.
Budgets
Kindly email me at bob@bobbrill.net to request a description of billing information on patent and trademark application preparation and prosecution.
Your Own Free Review of Patentability
Patent Eligibility
You are welcome to see a discussion of patent eligibility in my posts here and here.
Searching Prior Art
You are welcome to perform searches using the free sites listed below for patentability searching.
General Searching
Patent Searching
Issued US Patents http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm
Published US Patent Applications http://appft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html
Kindly note that the publication of applications has approximately 18 months delay from their filing date, so you would not know completely what has been filed within the last 18 months on a rolling basis.
Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
European Patent Office (EPO) http://worldwide.espacenet.com/
WIPO’s global collections of searchable intellectual property data http://www.wipo.int/wipogold/en/
Distinguishing Prior Art
You are welcome to see a discussion of patentability in my post under “How Does the Captain Navigate at the Helm?”
For a review of nonobviousness in connection with a specific invention, please see my post.
Your Own Free Review of Trademark Candidates
Trademark Confirmation
As an initial step, I respectfully suggest you confirm you are seeking a trademark. Toward your accomplishment of this identification, please see my post beginning under “Q: What Is a Trademark?”
Trademark Searching
You are welcome to perform searches using the free sites listed below for trademark searching.
Trademark Search Tools – USPTO http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp
Trademark Acceptable Identification of Goods & Services http://tess2.uspto.gov/netahtml/tidm.html
International Schedule of Classes of Goods and Services http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/notices/international.jsp
Manuals, Guides, Official Gazette – USPTO http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/resources/index.jsp
WIPO’s global collections of searchable intellectual property data http://www.wipo.int/wipogold/en/
Will Your Application Be Filed Timely?
Kindly remember to take care in your actions and work diligently: there are various limitations imposing time deadlines on the commencement of various protections relative to your actions. Failure to meet these limitations would forever bar you from pursuing at least certain types of protection. In addition, actions by you or others can also affect and potentially prevent your ability to pursue at least certain types of protection.
You are welcome to see my contact information. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for considering me as your potential patent and trademark attorney.
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