Looking for Willie Smookie... Where are you? Come out now, I want to talk to you. 

 Hey my dear funny friend,

I know you have a few patents on your solar gadgets.  I have a couple of
things I want to apply for a patent.  Can you help?  I have book but it's
5-6 yrs old.  Something probably had changed in the patent office.  Is there
any online application that you know of?

I did a patent research and I haven't found anything close to my new gadget,
so I am excited about this.

Thanks for your help.

Jack.

  JakTheHammer wrote:

http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp


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I agree with you Don on this:

When to Patent  WHEN2PAT.PDF
      Guidelines for when to patent. Do not even think about
      patents and patenting unless you can honestly give yourself
      positive answers to all of these key questions.

However, it seemed to me getting a patent seemed easy even the funny Willie
can get a few patents.  The Patent office will issue a wacky and weirdest
invention because their job is to make money.

Ok, here is my biggest question, I have no faith in getting a patent, I
thought I heard the Patent Office will not issue you a Patent if your
product is already on the market, is this true?  I am planning to Epoxy the
control circuit and just sell the product ASAP.

Thanks,

Jack.

 

I don't mean to sound too rush to sell, but the products had been in test
for several months now.  Very consistent and functional.

BTW- Thanks for your response.

 JakTheHammer wrote:

http://www.tinaja.com/glib/when2pat.pdf

But all epoxy does is wave a red "I've got a secret" flag.

Dental Xrays are the quickest workaround.
But so is epoxy remover.

And so is careful reverse engineering.
Given the inputs and the outputs, what is inbetween is usually obvious.

Unless they come up with something much better, since you spent your
time pissing around with epoxy rather than doing a decent design in the
first place.


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Many thanks,

Don Lancaster                          voice phone: (928)428-4073
Synergetics   3860 West First Street   Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml    email: don@tinaja.com

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com