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- From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
- Subject: Re: Recommend a book on "Patenting Your Invention"?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.191158.17083@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Vpnet Public Access
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:11:58 GMT
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- kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe) writes:
- >Would someone recommend a book about "How To Patent Your
- >Invention"? There must be several available.
-
- If you write to the Patent office in D.C. and ask them pretty much any
- question about patents, they will send a booklet called "General
- Information Concerning Patents" which has a lot of good information in
- it.
-
- You could also look in back issues of _Midnight Engineering_ magazine;
- they've done a couple of case histories on the patent process. (One
- of them determined that it was better _not_ to patent, but instead to
- protect your product as a trade secret.)
-
- >I took Patent Law at the University of Chicago Law School, so I
- >know the theory. I don't know what paperwork you file, how to do
- >a patent search, etc.
-
- So what did they teach you? :-)
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- Gordon S. Hlavenka cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
- Vote straight ticket Procrastination party Dec. 3rd!
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