It's not just me in my 20 years of experience as a patent attorney and as an adjunct professor, but we have an entire team. I have former patent examiners working for me that used to work at the patent office, denying or accepting patents. And they've switched teams, and now they help us […]
In 2013, the US patent law underwent the single biggest change in the last 100 years. We moved from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system. Before you disclose your idea, it's critical that you have the patent filed in advance.
In order to file for a patent, you must be the inventor. Now, if you find an existing product and you modify it, you apply it in a unique method, you might be considered the inventor and you can proceed with your own patent. You can also improve existing products, and if your improvement […]
There is no law that requires a patent attorney to conduct the search. However, most inventors, when they do their search, they’re focusing on using keywords, and keywords are not accurate. What one person calls a hose, somebody else will call a pipe and you might miss the closest known patents. Additionally, there are […]
There's something I truly love about inventing. Inventing leads to unity. Think about it: inventors create to help everyone. They see a problem and they ask themselves, how can I fix this or make it better to make people's lives easier? When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he lit up the lives of […]
This is The Patent Professor. We are an intellectual property law firm with one main goal: to help inventors get the strongest protection possible for their ideas. But we can't do that without our amazing team of attorneys, patent agents, former patent examiners from the patent office, engineers, paralegals, illustrators, and technical and legal […]
00:00 On today's Penn Professor success story, you'll hear the amazing story that sparked the idea for a product that Troy Electra turned into a profitable business. 00:09 My name is Troy Solyndra. I'm founder of the company called The Rat, I created inflatable throwable devices that our US Coast Guard 00:19 approved, Drake came […]
Inventor Success Story Gerard D'Offay - Floating Work Stations
00:00 On this patent Professor success story, you'll meet inventor Gerard DeFay, who took his product idea and turned it into a profitable business with the help of the patent Professor John Rizvi, 00:10 my name is Gerrard to say, I've been boating and yachting most of my life and decided to develop a product […]
Are you far enough along with your idea to get a patent?
Hi, I'm John Rizvi, the patent professor. A lot of inventors mistakenly believe that they need to have a working prototype of their invention in order to get a patent. This is not true at all, a prototype is not required. However, in order to get a patent, there are a number of questions that […]
Miami Patent Attorney Delivers First Inventor TEDx Talk in South Florida
00:00 It's very important that anybody that has a new product has to have somebody in their corner that is got a wealth of knowledge and that is John Rizvi. The whole process is it's an exciting one. It can be frustrating at time but he will walk you through everything he's doing me […]
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