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  FAST PATENT PROCESS

  Streamline the patent process. Put a patent office in every state capital specifically geared only towards hard tangible consumer products, not processes or software and the like. Just manufactured hard consumer products. And government funds to help get the product into the market. The key to getting government funding would be contractual in nature to keep the manufacturing here on American soil for a period of at least ...more »

  Streamline the patent process. Put a patent office in every state capital specifically geared only towards hard tangible consumer products, not processes or software and the like. Just manufactured hard consumer products. And government funds to help get the product into the market. The key to getting government funding would be contractual in nature to keep the manufacturing here on American soil for a period of at least 5 to 10 years, with a percentage of profit paying back the government with interest.

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  Submitted by soundcrystals 1 year ago

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  Proposed Patent Reform is bad for small business

  I suggest you...not eliminate or gut the "one year grace period," nor switch the US to a "first to file" country, with regard to patent application filings. These changes (S.23 and HR 1249), if enacted into law, will be very bad for small technology businesses, where most of our job growth is.

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  Submitted by jmhammond 2 years ago

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  Secure Patentability Rights even after Publication

  Secure patentability rights while allowing publication and commercialization of claims and trade secrets prior to submitting a patent application. Use the provisonal patent application database as a trade secret database [e.g., a Trade Secret Bank] that is searchable by a community of qualified members of the Bank who demonstrate that they will not use the information in the Bank for any purpose except to enter into ...more »

  Secure patentability rights while allowing publication and commercialization of claims and trade secrets prior to submitting a patent application.

  Use the provisonal patent application database as a trade secret database [e.g., a Trade Secret Bank] that is searchable by a community of qualified members of the Bank who demonstrate that they will not use the information in the Bank for any purpose except to enter into license or purchase arrangements with the provisional patent applicant. In addition, use the information in the Bank as prior art and allow the provisional patent applicant to maintain patentability rights as long as every reasonable effort is exercised to commercialize the claims or trade secrets that are contained in the applicant's application. Allow the applicant to publish original claims or trade secrets contained in the provisional patent application without loosing patentability rights for as long as the applicant engages in reasonable efforts to commercialize the claims or trade secrets contained in the provisional patent application. Encourage the provisional patent applicant to proceed to the patent application process after sufficient funds have been raised from commercialization activities.

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  Submitted by Gerard Peregrin 2 years ago

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  Better than "Patent Reform"

  Rather than completely rebuilding the Patent System... reinstate a version of The Disclosure Document Program with information to be kept Confidential by the USPTO but to be accessed as evidence of Date of Invention if needed. Keep electronic files Indefinately. I actually have a more thorough explanation but this is a simple, cost effective, way to address some of the issues brought up by Internation Mega-Corporations ...more »

  Rather than completely rebuilding the Patent System... reinstate a version of The Disclosure Document Program with information to be kept Confidential by the USPTO but to be accessed as evidence of Date of Invention if needed. Keep electronic files Indefinately.

  I actually have a more thorough explanation but this is a simple, cost effective, way to address some of the issues brought up by Internation Mega-Corporations that claiming they can't compete with Garage Inventor fairly.

  Submitting $15,000 patents, which may evolve and require additional submittals, just to get a Set Date is Inefficient, Ineffective, will cause additional backlog at the USPTO, and is Wasteful for Everyone!

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  Submitted by Arthur Blair 2 years ago

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