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patent haven
Category: Business and Money > Consulting Asked by: wishbone-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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13 Sep 2002 16:45 PDT
Expires: 13 Oct 2002 16:45 PDT Question ID: 64820 |
I have a bunch of inventions but I've had a problem with the rip-off patent office in the US.All I want is to find a patent haven in the world where I can register my work and have first to invent status.Find me a place where all I have to do is send them some money and get a patent for a few bucks.I'll give you a $20.00 bonus if your info is actually useful.Thanks |
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Re: patent haven
Answered By: eiffel-ga on 14 Sep 2002 03:04 PDT Rated:  |
Hi wishbone, Your need for a simple way to demonstrate "first inventor" status could be met by the newly-introduced "Innovation Patent", offered only by Australia. It is a simple patent, available with a minimum of fuss. It is inexpensive and simple to obtain, although there are a few limitations. You cannot use an Innovation Patent for patents that relate to human beings, plants and animals or biological processes for the generation of these. The Innovation Patent lasts only eight years, but as you wish to demonstrate "first to invent" status this may not be a problem. One of the things which makes the Innovation Patent inexpensive and simple is that there is no substantive examination of prior art at the time of application. That means that only a basic check is made on your patent application before it is granted. If you later want to enforce that patent through the courts, you would have to have a proper prior art search conducted at that later time. The administering body is the government department "IP Australia", who have a page describing the Innovation Patent: "Patents - Innovation Patent" http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/P_innvopat.htm According to the Intellectual Property practice Baldwin Shelston Waters, an Australian Innovation Patent "cannot be designated under the Patent Cooperation Treaty ('PCT'), although the subsequent Australian National Phase application may be converted to an application for an Innovation Patent". "The new innovation patent" http://www.bsw.com/articles/alert_innovation.html According to IP Australia, you can apply for the Innovation Patent online at the following address: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/ecentre/eccs/index.cfm?fuseaction=lodge_app_start However, at the current time the above page has a message stating that it is "temporarily unavailable as a result of the implementation of IP Australia's New Patent System ... In the meantime, Innovation Patent applications can be faxed to IP Australia's business transactions fax on +61 2 6283 7999 ... General inquiries may be made to the Customer Support Centre on +61 2 6283 2999 from 8am to 5pm Australian Eastern Time." The price of an Innovation Patent is AU$180, or AU$150 if paid for online by credit card. That's approximately US$100 and US$82 respectively. Additional links: IP Australia Home Page http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/index.html Baldwin Shelston Waters Home Page http://www.bsw.com/ Gilshenan and Luton (Lawyers) - Innovation Patent Page http://www.gnl.com.au/innovationpatent.htm Halford & Co Patent & Trademark Attorneys - Innovation Patent http://www.halfords.com.au/innovation_patent.htm Google search strategy: "innovation patent" australia ://www.google.com/search?q=%22innovation+patent%22+australia "innovation patent" australia "fee of" ://www.google.com/search?q=%22innovation+patent%22+australia+%22fee+of%22 Regards, eiffel-ga | |
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Re: patent haven
From: shananigans-ga on 13 Sep 2002 18:03 PDT |
No matter what country, your patent has to be checked out to make sure no-one else holds it. You'll never be able to 'just send money'. I have checked out patent costs in the European Union nations, and they are all very high. The Irish patent office, for example, offers short term patents for 30 Euros, and the application fee for long-term (20 year) patents is 64 Euros. Both these options require you to pay additional (very high) fees each year in order to renew your patent. I mention this only because, if there is not patent haven, the $US might compare favourably to the Euro, so it would at least cost you less to get a patent in Europe. source: www.patentsoffice.ie/PDF%20Documents/ PATENT%20%FORM%20NO.%202.PDF At www.piperpat.co.nz/ipoff/index.html there is a list of contact addresses for every patent office world-wide. I have emailed the offices of Australia, Peru, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tuvalu, The Netherlands, and a couple of other countries to see how much patents cost. I did not enquire with any Middle East nations because I didn't think their response to an American inquiry would be favourable at this time. I also did not email the EU nations, as I had already found out that their patent fees are so high. If you would like to contact any other nations by 'snail mail' their adresses are listed on the above website; I only emailed 'likely suspects' and some of the email addresses came back as 'no known user' which makes the search a little more difficult. Please let me know if you would like me to continue in this line of inquiry, whether a negative answer to your question would still be valuable or useful to you, and whether you would like me to post the results of my email inquiries as the 'answer' to your query. Best, shananigans-ga |
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