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There is a time limit on patent protection.
For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees. Design patents last 14 years from the date you are granted the patent. Note: Patents in force on June 8 and patents issued thereafter on applications filed prior to June 8, 1995 automatically have a term that is the greater of the twenty year term discussed above or seventeen years from the patent grant.

 



If you've always been the creative type who's been inventing during every spare moment, you may still be able to cash in on all your hard work. By filing a patent request with the US Patent Office, you can secure your right to be the only one to make or sell your product. With the help of a patent lawyer in Wisconsin, you can file your patent quickly, and file a lawsuit on anyone who attempts to make money off your hard work.

 
PATENTS ISSUED TO RESIDENTS OF THE UNITE    
 
 
Data includes utility, design, plant, and reissue patents.2 Represents residents of American Samoa, Guam, and miscellaneous U.S. Pacific Islands.3 No state indicated in database. The Number of Patent that was issue during1990--1993.
1990   1991   1992   1993  
1,238   1,207   1,342   1,314  

Source: USPTO
 

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While most people confuse patents with trademarks and copyrights, patents apply only to ideas. A patent gives you the right to bar others from making, selling, using or importing your product in the United States. Congress writes the laws related to patents. Currently, patents last 20 years from the date on which the patent was filed. Patent laws only work in the United States.

The U.S. awards three types of patents:

  • Utility Patents - for discoveries of new, useful machines, composition of matter or any improvements
  • Design Patents - for new designs of an article for manufacture
  • Plant Patents - for anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces a new species of plant

Your Wisconsin patent attorney can be very helpful during the patent process. The Wisconsin patent lawyer can help you conduct a patent search to see if the item your have invented has already been patented by someone else. He can also help you defend your patent against someone who tries to steal your idea.

Hiring a patent lawyer in Wisconsin to defend you patent is a very good idea since the government will not help you in this matter.

Wisconsin Patent lawyers can be helpful with:

  • Searching for a the patent database
  • Protecting your patent
  • Filing your patent
  • Appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals
  • Correction of patents
  • Extend Patent terms
  • Withdraw your patent

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  Internet Star eBay Loses Patent Lawsuit
AUDIO, RM, 44Kbps, 3:15, 5/28/2003

A federal court jury rules that online auction giant eBay infringed on patents held by Thomas Woolston, a northern Virginia entrepreneur. The jury orders eBay, based in San Jose, Calif., to pay $35 million in damages. NPR's Jack Speer reports.
Source: NPR
 
 
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Patent Law Terms

 


Friday's Term

Descriptive Mark

Definition:
A mark is considered merely descriptive if it describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the specified goods or services.

Divisional Application

Definition:
A later application for an independent or distinct invention disclosing and claiming (only a portion of and) only subject matter disclosed in the earlier or parent application.

Group Art Unit

Definition:
A working unit responsible for a cluster of related patent art. Staffed by one supervisory patent examiner (SPE) and a number of patent examiners who determine patentability on applications for a patent.

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Wisconsin Patent Attorney

 
If you live in the following cities and need an patent attorney you should contact our Patent Attorney as soon as possible:

  • Appleton
  • Beloit
  • Burlington
  • Chippewa Falls
  • De Pere
  • Eau Claire
  • Fond Du Lac
  • Franklin
  • Green Bay
  • Janesville
  • Kenosha
  • La Crosse
  • Madison
  • Manitowoc
  • Marshfield
  • Menomonee Falls
  • Milwaukee
  • Neenah
  • New Berlin
  • Oak Creek
  • Oconomowoc
  • Oshkosh
  • Racine
  • Sheboygan
  • Stevens Point
  • Sun Prairie
  • Superior
  • Waukesha
  • Wausau
  • West Bend
  • Wisconsin Rapids
 


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