QUESTION
Should I hire a attorney to apply for a patent? How?
Asked on May 07th, 2015 on Patents - Massachusetts
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You are under no obligation to have anyone assist you in preparing your application. Most people hire a patent attorney or agent as a form of insurance to give their application the best possible chance of being approved by the examiner.
Answered on May 08th, 2015 at 3:54 AM
If the subject of the patent application is valuable, and based on your asking this question, the answer is yes. To the send question, if you don't know the answer, doing it yourself is likely to have bad consequences which would be difficult or impossible to reverse after you file it
Answered on May 08th, 2015 at 3:49 AM
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You will do it wrong. The manual of examination is 10,000 pages long.
Answered on May 08th, 2015 at 3:48 AM
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You don't need an attorney - but it is generally wise to hire one. Patent work is very "rule specific" and violation of the rules can be fatal to your invention. Visit the US Patent Office website - www.uspto.gov - to search for attorneys in your city. Also search patents to see how they are constructed.
Answered on May 08th, 2015 at 3:38 AM