New patent law offers inventors additional protection

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The Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 requires that invention promoters provide inventors information about their track records. Promoters have to disclose the number of inventions that they have evaluated for the past five years, the number of their customers for the past five years and the number of inventors that have earned a profit and license agreements from their services. The new law sought to control the exploitative practices of invention promoters, who are people who search companies willing to commercialize an invention, for a certain fee from the inventor.

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Publishing patent applications

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Patent applications in the US will be published 18 months from the earliest filing date from which the application claims benefit once the patent bill approved by the House of Representatives is passed into law. However, applications that are under a secrecy order issued by federal defense agencies will not be published until the secrecy order has been revoked. On the other hand, small businesses, independent inventors and institutions of higher learning have the right to request that applications not be published.

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Draft your patents with an effective claiming strategy

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Patent applications should have an effective claiming strategy, and preparing such applications should involve a good understanding of various types of claims such as method or process claims, and liabilty for infringement. Methods in drafting a patent with an effective claiming strategy are presented.

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