Patenting Your Invention

Patent Searches and Registration

• USPTO - free patent search

• Freepatentsonline - free patent search

• Patent Genius - free patent search

• Wiz Patent Express - more fullf eatured patent search (licensing fee)

• USPTO - forms

• Guide to filing an utility patent

• Guide to filing a design patent

• Patent search tutorial

• Provisional Patents- Do They Exist? - DesignMyIdea.com
  
  

Helpful Articles from InventorSpot.com

• Patent Pending in One Hour ...Without An Attorney

• Ten Rules Every Inventor Should Know - by David Pressman
  

  
  

• Protecting Your Ideas : How and Why Strategies Should Differ

• Be Like Sherlock in Your Patent Search - Myra Per Lee

• To Market, To Market - How do Inventors Go? (1)- Myra Per Lee

• How Do Inventors Go To Market? (2): The Provisional Patent Application -Myra Per Lee

• How Do Inventors Go to Market (3)- The Patentability Opinion and Search Help You Decide- Myra Per Lee

• How Do Inventors Go to Market (4) - From Patenting Opinion to Patent Application- Myra Per Lee

• The Importance of Getting a "Patent Pending" for Your Invention - Jim Lowrance

Other Places to Do Your Research and Find Answers

• Finding a Good Lawyer

• InventorSpot.com forum

• IPLawBlog - Law Blog on IP issues.

• PatentlyO Blog - Law Blog on IP issues