USPTO Roadshow: The Patent Examination Process

[@nevaholloway1093]

Thank you so much. I didn't understand how important how important claims were or that we can talk to the examiner. Also I didn't know once a patent is issued that we must continue to pay fees. Thank you for your time and the explanation.

[@joephantom8288]

So why don't you just have you examined do a patent search once they do not find any prior art whatever rules stipulated. It appears to me that the patent office is making patents complicated and hard to get for the purpose of making money through fee's

[@paperbeen]

The problem with USPTO and generally current US patent system that enforcement is in hand of inventor himself and mostly unaffordable. Theoretical.

[@nicolettereece8818]

Thank you for this

[@onekerri1]

Given the rampant corruption within the USPTO that I know now, this woman's animosity toward inventors and entrepreneurs, glows louder than neon signs.

[@gregorysalter6226]

Whats corruption u talking about?

[@joephantom8288]

So why do you make it so complicated the patent process?

[@gregorysalter6226]

Independent inventor. That's what I'm tryin rn

[@joephantom8288]

Yeah I would challenge the time limit where the patent office eats up for years of your protection time period from the time you get the patent granted is the time that your clock should start. And I will challenge that in court!

[@puremindssyria1366]

is that just for american citizens?

[@paperbeen]

no you can file patent application with USPTO regardless of your citizenship. Same with any other Patent Office in any country

[@onekerri1]

That would be a capital A.

[@Sadboy80629]

Let's face it, having patents in your name is the biggest clout pass to be cocky as hell. You can pick up a dictionary and find any patent and revise it to add a worse alternate and boom, it's novel because it's worse than the original imo. You go to court right for a traffic ticket and you agrue that you were just testing out a patent related to physics and that your just doing your job, it goes to jury trial and jury gets to see your patent ,jury goes like wow very smart man he could be Albert Einstein gotta let this guy not guilty .

[@NoYoureBeautiful]

What's horrible is the "poor man's patent". Try to go that route and you find out someone at the post office opens your mail and copies the contents. Then your hotel room gets broken into and the receipt stolen and local police refuse to even file a report. Call the uspoig and get the runaround until escalation. Which they just refer you right back to the same office that defrauded you. Then you see in the news that the patent office's system gets shut down for a "vulnerability"... yeah, the process is definitely not something worthwhile to anyone seeking a patent