jeff [email] said at 12:21 AM 10-14-2003: I know he's hot to trot, but I felt it was worth seeing if anyone know one of those rare decent people that could provide about 5 minutes of free advice.
Online instructions are abound too, but it's the legal gruntwork behind drafting a document that's also an issue.
jeff [email] said at 12:57 AM 10-14-2003: The truth comes out. I posted this message just to see what would happen, but in truth I do need some patent advice.
jeff [email] said at 2:57 AM 10-14-2003: While trying to make the subject line an image rather than text, Josh's 1337 programming skills had Killoggs set to filter img tags out. Since the subject line insisted on having some text regardless, I used some special codes to get blanks. In short, there's no obvious subject to this message, but Josh went back and made it show up properly under "recent responses". Should he lock down those codes, I can only think of one other way to pull off a blank subject line, but I promised him I'm through with my h4x0r ways.
brianbibbly [email] said at 12:49 PM 10-14-2003: Oh my lovliest Jeff. First go and do yourself a patent search on uspto.gov. There are certain requirements that must be met for something to be patentable. (novel, useful, blah, blah) uspto.gov should have all that info.
As far as a patent attorney is concerned, I am not one because you have to have passed the patent bar, and in order to sit for it you have to have a technical degree. So I can't help you there. I do know a very good patent attorney, but he is not cheap. Sorry. I'll check around though and see if I can dig up someone to help you out.
Peace.
brianbibbly [email] said at 12:54 PM 10-14-2003: P.S. You can probably do it yourself if you are willing to put a little sweat into it. The uspto website should have all the forms you need to register. They keep it easy for people who aren't so legally inclined. The hard part is knowing that you have something that is eligible for a patent, and searching to find out if you aren't infringing on someone else's patent. Thats where the lawyers come in. But I know that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been really proactive in getting all these registrations done online so to cut down on paper. They also are trying to make it a little easier for people. Go to the website and give it a gander.
If nothing else works, email me and We can chat.
