DO A PATENT SEARCH
Before Investing in a Patent, You Should Search Existing Patents That Relate to Your New Product.
PART TWO
You've tested your idea and you know it works. You've kept complete and accurate records of your experimentation.
Now what?
Under the conditions of the patent law, you must establish that your idea is NOVEL. An invention cannot be patented if:
1. The invention was known or used by others in this country2. The invention was previously patented in this or another country
3. The invention was described in a printed publication anywhere in the world on a date before you made claim to the invention.
If you wish to establish whether your invention is indeed new and unobvious, you will have to search for existing patents and literature related to your invention. The literature search can be carried out by usual means available to scientists and engineers.
A search of U.S. patents can be made in the search room of the Patent and Trademark Office in Arlington, Virginia, and also at any of the patent depository libraries in the U.S.
If in a search you have identified U.S. patents that are relevant to your invention, for a nominal fee, you may obtain copies of such patents.
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